Tagging-Archive: logfile


view different logs with multitail at once

I’ve recently discovered multitail for me. This allows the view of different logfiles simultaneously in fixed places. Previously I have used tail -f /var/log/a.log /var/log/b.log This works well but you have to be extremely careful which log it has just changed. Multitail is much better for this task. An accurate […]


Apache anonymisieren

In the apache access.log all ip addresses are stored complete. This is neither necessary for statistcs nor it´s needed to store these data. IPv4 addresses can be quite simple anonymous, if the last part is changed. I.e. 176.9.33.188 goes to 176.9.33.0 The most statistic-tools can handle the data furthermore. As […]


Apache without static content

Most log entries when using CMS you actually need and they do not prevent the view of the more essential. The whole can be relatively easily prevented by an entry in each vhost: SetEnvIf Request_URI “\ (txt | jpg | png | gif | ico | js | css | […]