Fun with httpd logs and code red
Stephen Boulet
spboulet at speakeasy.net
Mon Aug 20 02:08:48 EDT 2001
Graham Ashton wrote:
> Stephen Boulet wrote:
>
>> Just for fun, I wrote the following script to check my apache log for
>> recent code red queries:
>>
>> if string.find(line, "GET /default.ida"):
>
> Shouldn't that say:
>
> if string.find(line, "GET /default.ida") != -1:
>
> instead?
>
> Otherwise it just counts the number of unique IP addresses in your access
> log, as -1 is true. Perhaps you'll find you had fewer code red hits after
> that.
>
> --
> Graham
Thanks for pointing that out. Actually it found one more item than the
previous total with the correction in place (my log contains nothing but
code red entries since I only use it as a test site).
I'll have to see what's possible as far as getting back to the people goes.
- Stephen
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