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lbonanomi
lbonanomi

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Quick Checks for Log Repetition

Got paged at 06:30, second disk alert on an Apache proxy in 24 hours.

$ tail -500 access_log | awk '{ print $11 }' | while read l ; 
do echo "$l" | cksum; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -rnk1
    254 646511054 1131
    241 4112021984 1128
      1 785623522 964
      1 3691076460 4
      1 3287357281 899
      1 2484884658 1131
      1 2437517015 72

Looks like 99% of requests are the same 2 things. Eyeballing demonstrates my hosts are getting polled hard by a user. They are suspended until they explain what they are doing to generate ~15 gigs of logging all by themselves every 20 hours.

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