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Log file fun
“So, how do I check my logs?” asked Spring. [1] Now that I host her site, she
finally has total access to her web log files.
“Well … first you need to install a program like F-Secure,” I said.
“I have to install a program?”
“Or SecureCRT or something like that. Hold on, I can get you the link—”
“I think I already have it,” she said. Sure enough, she had F-Secure—an
installation Wlofie did earlier. We spent the next hour or so futzing around
getting it to work under Windows 2000. It was installed under Windows 98, but
not under Windows 2000, so it was getting a bit confused I guess because of a
lack of registry entries. So I deleted it, and reinstalled. I then walked her
through logging onto tower.conman.org, the co-located Linux box her site runs
on, and I have her a few Unix commands to scan the file.
We then spent the next few hours going through her log files (which start on
August 23^rd, when I took over hosting her site) and seeing the type of
traffic she gets. And like my site, [2] she gets a lot of traffic via search
engines, using such terms as tasteful nudes, illegal nudes and Veruca Salt
(played by Julie Dawn Cole [3] in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [4]).
Although some of her pages have been found with some very odd terms, but
then again, some of the terms that people find my pages with are very odd
indeed (masturbation being one of the more popular ones, but people looking
to make napalm are probably disapointed in my site, along with getting a good
car deal).
[1]
http://www.springdew.com/
[2]
http://www.conman.org/people/spc/
[3]
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cole,+Julie+Dawn
[4]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067992
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