On Jan 24, 2008 10:52 AM, James Wade <<a href="mailto:jkwade@futurefrontiers.com">jkwade@futurefrontiers.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">














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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hello All,</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'd like to be able to graph the number of users</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">connecting to a web-site. I was wondering if any one</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">had any good ideas or if something had already been</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">written.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Basically, I want to track the number of users connecting</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">to a web-site by looking at the log-file, and I'd like
to graph</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">it.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The log-file looks like this:</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://192.168.0.22" target="_blank">192.168.0.22</a> - user07 [20/Aug/2007:08:49:49 -0500] "GET
/htdocs/info/wd.html<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">So, it shows all the web pages the user accesses. What I
really want to know</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">is how many users are currently connecting through to the
web-site.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I could cat the log file out every minute, grab the
username, do a sort unique</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">based on the IP address and Username, then do a count, and
graph it. But</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I don't know that it would be very accurate. The logfile
rotates every 2mb,</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">so I'd have to do a grep of all the files based on
date and time, then do</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">a sort on IP address and Username.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I also want to put some checks in, for example, same
username with</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">more than one IP address, reverse lookup of the IP based on
location,</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ie….our users should only be in the U.S., and not
somewhere else.</span></font></p>

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</blockquote></div><br><br>Dunno if/how it could be integrated into Hobbit, but I think Webalizer (<a href="http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/">http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/</a>) does exactly what you're looking for.
<br><br>Ralph Mitchell<br><br>