From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 29 20:26:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D9B106566C for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from mta31.charter.net (mta31.charter.net [216.33.127.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B528FC29 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.01.00 201-2219-108-20080618) with ESMTP id <20090329202556.PBLS2647.mta31.charter.net@imp11> for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:25:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.254.3] ([24.176.107.216]) by imp11 with charter.net id Z8Rw1b0094g9tMU058RwyA; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:25:56 -0400 Message-Id: <8BDE67B0-B6B1-4AAC-A0FD-0E519E74CBAF@charter.net> From: Charles Howse To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <4ad871310903291154j74c35b0p545157b848adf8b9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:25:55 -0500 References: <5BCD53E0-5B9F-4349-8401-FBF0ACF369C2@charter.net> <200903290451.n2T4pqhh005842@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4ad871310903291154j74c35b0p545157b848adf8b9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Subject: Re: analyzing httpd-error.log X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:26:05 -0000 On Mar 29, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Charles Howse > wrote: >> >> On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but >>>> when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills >>>> out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a >>>> good solution for webalizer and -error.log. >>> > > What are the errors? Intrusion attempts, (a few) bad links in my website, also I use the error.log to troubleshoot cgi scripts. > > >>> The format of error log is pretty much different from the format of >>> transfer log. No wonder webalizer is not liking it. You may have to >>> write your own format for th error log. >> >> Well, can anyone suggest a port that will parse the error.log and >> output it >> to a web page that's easy to read? >> > > Webalizer is probably your best bet. > >> Also, in httpd.conf what level of detail should I set in the >> error.log to >> get the most information. It's currently set to 'warn', which I >> understand >> to be 'warn' and everything more critical than that. I don't care >> about the >> size of the log, or the amount of garbage per line. > > The 'debug' log level will provide the most verbosity. Thanks, Glen.