Sat, 16 Oct 2004
Apache Error log to Access log date converter
As part of my daily server housekeeping I keep an eye on the Apache error
logs for each of the servers I'm responsible for. If it's a quiet day I'll
grep through the attempted exploits, attacks and formmail scans for any
useful error messages. While attempting to track some 404's back to the
corresponding access-log entries I got bored of converting the error logs
date format into the default date format of the access log so I wrote a
small bit of shell that I (badly) named
ApacheErrorDate.sh but
without the studly caps, to do it for me.
You invoke the script on the command line with a single argument, the error log date string you want to convert. The script will then return a string in the access log format. If you want to paste the returned string directly into your editor of choice (I tested this with vim) then you can supply the -e option to have the slashes escaped to stop vim treating it as a substitution command.
I've added the short script, with a download link and brief introduction, to the MiniProjects page under the Apache Error log to Access log date converter header.
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Posted: 2004/10/16 16:47 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Stock Photos Considered (Non-)Harmful
As anyone who has ever read this site will have noticed, I have no
artistic ability; and a love of torturing innocent punctuation :). Even
the comet tail / mosaic at the top of almost every page was done for me
by an amazingly talented guy called Pete Jones.
One of my side projects (which typically move at near glacial speed) could do with a splash of colour and some photos. A quick google around led me to iStockPhoto which, in addition to having a great little tag line (The designer's dirty little secret), has some great images, especially some of the business shots by Lisa Gagne.
What's interesting to me is both the cheapness of the images, the fact that the submitters get 20% in royalties and that this may be the closest thing to a working micro-payments system I've seen recently. Oh and the prices are in dollars which rocks for me as a UK denizen.
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