Re: [squid-users] trimming contents of access.log

From: Ahmad Masood Shah <masood@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:17:26 +0500

There are two ways to do it.

1> Hack squid code to discard logging entries like that...

2> write a simple perl scrist which will parse your access.log and remove
entries which you don't like..

-- 
Best Regs,
Masood Ahmad Shah
System Administrator
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Sharaz" <A.Sharaz@hull.ac.uk>
To: "Ahmad Masood Shah" <masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk>;
<squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] trimming contents of access.log
>
>
> --On 05 June 2003 16:21 +0500 Ahmad Masood Shah
<masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm not able to understat what information you want to fetch from your
> > logss. If you want to fetch IP basis information from access log etcc
then
> > simple is that
> >
> > less access.log | grep youriphere
> >
> no i want to configure squid not to put entries in the access.log for HEAD
> commands coming from the IP address associated with my server load
> balancing box. Each cache generates a nightly access.log file that is
about
> 20Mytes and anything I can do to trim some of the triivia out of it would
> help
> Alex
>
> > --
> >
> > Best Regs,
> > Masood Ahmad Shah
> > System Administrator
> >
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> > Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> > (Dennis Ritchie)
> > "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe
> > and a quick recompile."
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alex Sharaz" <A.Sharaz@hull.ac.uk>
> > To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:12 PM
> > Subject: [squid-users] trimming contents of access.log
> >
> >
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> quick question,
> >>
> >> I'm running a number of web caches connected to a foundry ServerIronxL
> >> server load balancing device.
> >> The ServerIron performs L7 health checks every 30 seconds ( which I'm
> >> planning to reduce to about 109 secs)
> >>
> >> The only problem is that of course the access logs has got entries for
> >> "HEAD" commands coming from the ServerIron.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to filter out  either types of command or connection
info
> >> from particular IP addresses ?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> Sent using Mulberry 3.01a
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> Sent using Mulberry 3.01a
>
Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 06:17:52 MDT

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