What are the main logs for understanding what the Unix (Linux and Mac OS X) systems are doing? Which log files are important for system administration?
posted by tahirh on Jul 18, 2009 - 6 answers

There must be SOME way to export my gchat/google talk logs out of gmail, right? [more inside]
posted by EnormousTalkingOnion on Jun 13, 2009 - 2 answers

Logging username logins on our web server? [more inside]
posted by jmd82 on Mar 27, 2009 - 4 answers

Is it possible to obtain logs of old facebook chat conversations? [more inside]
posted by Raynyn on Mar 10, 2009 - 4 answers

How do I delete iChat logs? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 15, 2008 - 7 answers

I have binders full of paper phone logs. I want to move them to some electronic format. What to use? [more inside]
posted by slow graffiti on Jul 7, 2008 - 5 answers

It appears that chkdsk has corrupted some of my files. How can I stop this happening? [more inside]
posted by edbyford on May 6, 2008 - 9 answers

Help me understand MSSQL logs... At least enough to do what I need to do. [more inside]
posted by eas98 on Mar 28, 2008 - 1 answer

Can you explain what these entries are doing in my website stats/logs? [more inside]
posted by Skyanth on May 16, 2007 - 3 answers

How can I go about rectifying the discrepancy between AWStats/Analog/Apache log tools and MRTG graphs? [more inside]
posted by PuGZ on Apr 5, 2007 - 7 answers

What open source package do you like for Apache logfile analysis? [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Mar 20, 2007 - 6 answers

Does windows xp create a log of attached usb drives and files opened on them? If so, can I subvert it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 11, 2006 - 8 answers

Hi, I'm hosted with TextDrive who don't provide stats or log analysis for their customers. I do have access to the raw Apache log files, though, and would dearly love to parse them and get some meaningful stats and hopefully graphical charts out of them, ala AWStats, Analog or Webalizer. [more inside]
posted by dance on Oct 9, 2006 - 9 answers

Random /sorry.asp requests in my apache logs? [more inside]
posted by ph00dz on Aug 15, 2006 - 13 answers

Does anybody know a script that will monitor your server logs and notify you when a specific IP (or user agent) hits your site?
posted by jedro on Jan 5, 2006 - 8 answers

How do I block my url from showing up in other people's referral logs? [more inside]
posted by RoseovSharon on Aug 17, 2005 - 10 answers

I am in a shared hosting environment, but I host multiple domains using mod_rewrite. Of course, this means all the domains get lumped together in one logfile. I need to be able to separate the individual domains for log analysis, without using a CustomLog statement. [more inside]
posted by joshwa on Aug 17, 2005 - 6 answers

I currently have a Typepad Pro account, but am not impressed with Typepad's "View Visitor Stats" feature. I need to upgrade the log tracking. [more inside]
posted by Blue Buddha on Aug 17, 2005 - 4 answers

I found a site a while ago, where you would enter AOL/AIM screen names to monitor, and it will store data on when the name is online/away... now it's been long enough to get some nice data but I can't Google my way around to it.
posted by adzm on Apr 26, 2005 - 8 answers

"Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer.... Reffy comes with a pre-generated list of 3047 active blog websites...." My blog is on that pre-generated list. These people are spamming my logs and filling my referrer page with crap. Paypal has, unsurprisingly, not responded to reports that they're being used to transfer money to spammers, and .htaccess deny blacklists are no good when your URL is being distributed to spammers all over the place. So, (1) how do I stop them, and (2) what legal recourse would I possibly have to get my cut of the money they're making by putting my website URL in their application?
posted by anonymous on Dec 4, 2004 - 11 answers

Web download tracking: I've got a bunch of (totally legit etc etc) binary files available for download. I have them linked from a server I run to a server I have space on but don't run. (The html is on my own server, the binaries are on the other one.) I want to track downloads of the binaries, but I can't get at the access logs for their server. What can I do on my server to track 'click throughs' from the html page to the binaries? I'd like it to be completely transparent to the client: they can wget, right click download etc etc but I just want to know when they initiate a connection to download from the binaries' server. [more inside]
posted by neustile on Dec 1, 2004 - 6 answers

Question for the logwebbers (gwebbers, if you will): how do I split a REALLY big log? (more inside) [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Oct 12, 2004 - 9 answers