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Questions tagged [logging]

Recording activity on the system (or of a particular program) for later reporting and analysis. Logins, logouts, web server page requests, etc might all be logged.

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How to get Awstats to ignore me

I am using awstats to log my server traffic and am very pleased. One problem is that I am traveling a lot and I do not want my traffic counted in awstats. Do you have any good idea on how I can ignore my visits? My first thought is to somehow use…
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NXLOG File Input Search Patterns

I'm trying to use nxlog to forward vCenter messages to Logstash with the im_file input module and a pattern to specify the exact file(s) to watch. What would normally be simple is now needlessly complicated as vCenter's log rotation compresses the…
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IIS logging volume

Is there any reason to keep logging for a very high volume site? What valuable data is there to be had in the raw logs. We do keep the logs today for "just in case" could someone provide an answer for "Just in case What?"
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Syslog-ng not logging on debian

I have syslog-ng running but it does not seem to be logging to /var/log anymore. Looking at the logs it apparently used to awhile back: -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 8 00:55 messages -rw------- 1 root root 569157 Sep 4 01:27…
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Choosing the right database/storage engine for iptables ulogd

I'm looking for some help choosing a database backend for a iptables ulogd setup. We are going to swap out our current proprietary firewall solution with iptables and one of the requirements is to log all traffic being forwarded by the…
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HAProxy: log-separate-errors shows all requests as error

I configured haproxy with option log-separate-errors to be able to log errorneous requests in a separate logfile. However, using that option, all requests are then being sent to the logfile, even though I am filtering for syslog level error. I…
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Buffered nginx/varnish access logging to remote server

I need a way to measure how many times different files have been accessed and when. My setup consists of several low capacity servers spread out over the world running Varnish behind Nginx (for SSL support). No content is actually stored on the…
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Find out if user logged in to OWA / read his emails

Is there a way to find out, what is the last time a user logged in to OWA? (Actually, it would be even better to find out, if he read his emails, but I don't think that's possible.) If there are logs that contain such kinds of activities, where can…
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Tomcat Logging Multiple Days Behind

I have been noticing on our largish production deployment of Tomcat that some logs display this issue of being "multiple days behind" in the logging output. We have a 3rd-party vendor application installed on an 8-core server which runs a total of…
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Checkpoint FW1 logging

When I view the logs created for my checkpoint fw1, does it log connections on receiving the syn, or does it wait till the three way handshake completes? If it logs after the syn, is there anyway of telling where the three way handshake has not…
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Centralized logging server failover

I'm planning a centralized log server for 200+ Linux boxes, rsyslog on both the client and server side. Here are my requirements: Do not log anything locally on Linux boxes and send everything to centralized log server. In case the centralized log…
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How to avoid log files growing too big?

I have a Linux process generating very big log files. Those file could grow infinitely if I didn't do anything. Is there any way to limit a file's size and to make it act like some kind of fifo buffer keeping only a certain amount of data? I also…
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A good tool for parsing Nginx logs for Django app

Can anyone recommend a good tool to parse and analyze Nginx access logs which will group the urls based on the regex in my django urls.py files (or a config file generated from them)? It does not need to be real-time. One of my primary concerns is…
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How to know which user killed a process

Is there a way in linux to find out which user or which process killed another process? Maybe a log? I searched through /var/log and specifically on auth.log.* but I didn't find anything interesting.. I suppose that the process was killed using htop…
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Apache logs just "plesklog"

I just discovered that my Apache 2.2.8 just logs in his access_log the string plesklog since a few weeks. Normally it looks like that www.xxx.yyy.zzz - - [19/Jul/2013:04:37:32 +0600] "GET /infos.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12371 "http://www.yahoo.com/"…
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