waccess(1)

NAME
waccess - Quick And Dirty Web Log Analysis

SYNOPSIS
waccess [-rs] string, string, ...

DESCRIPTION
'waccess' is a quick way to check a web access log for particular "hits" or accesses. 'waccess' will search the log looking for, displaying, and counting all the accesses which contain any of the strings you name on the command line. 'waccess' is not a replacement for a serious web log analysis tool, but is useful for "quickie" lookups.

OPTIONS

-r  Try to determine the hostname of each access by doing a reverse lookup on the IP address.

-s  Suppress display of the individual matching records and only show the totals.

EXAMPLES
waccess myreport.pdf Searches the web access log displaying all access records containing the string 'myreport.pdf'. When log search is finished, 'waccess' displays the total number of records examined and how many matching entries were found. waccess -r myreport.pdf Searches the web access log displaying all access records containing the string 'myreport.pdf'. This time, for each matching record, 'waccess' will try to figure out (and display) the hostname of the accessing machine via a reverse IP lookup. waccess -s myreport.pdf Look for and count records in the web access log containing 'myreport.pdf', but do not display them. Only display the totals when the analysis is complete.

OTHER
You must have a reasonably current copy of 'python' installed for 'waccess' to operate.

BUGS AND MISFEATURES
None known as of this release.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING
waccess is Copyright(c) 2001, TundraWare Inc. For terms of use, see the waccess-license.txt file in the program distribution. If you install waccess on a FreeBSD system using the 'ports' mechanism, you will also find this file in /usr/local/share/doc/waccess.

AUTHOR
Tim Daneliuk
tundra@tundraware.com