lighty's life

The usual morning starts with a coffee, reading mails and checking the referer-logs. That’s long story … reading log-files. Scrolling log-files are looking like the Matrix and are very relaxing.

As I don’t run a log-file analyzer I use a simple grep to scan the last few lines of the referer log:

$ tail -100000 .../access.log |\
   grep -v 'light_button' | \
   awk -F ' ' '{ print $11 }' |\
   grep -v '\(kneschke\|incremental\|lighttpd\.net\|/#"$\)' |\
   sort |\
   uniq -c |\
   sort -r -n | less

Usually we have mininova or rubyonrails sending us most of the referers over the day, but this morning we get:

   1081 "http://digg.com/" 
    963 "http://www.digg.com/" 
    615 "http://digg.com/linux_unix/lighttpd_Fast_Secure_and_Flexible_Web_Server" 
     84 "http://digg.com/news" 
     78 "http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/lighttpd_Fast_Secure_and_Flexible_Web_Server" 
     58 "http://www.digg.com/view/technology" 
     45 "http://www.digg.com/news" 
     42 "http://del.icio.us/" 
     35 "http://digg.com/view/technology" 
     33 "http://digg.com/view/all" 
     30 "http://www.digg.com/view/all" 
     21 "http://doggdot.us/" 
     15 "http://news.netcraft.com/" 
     14 "http://digg.com/linux_unix" 
     12 "http://www.digg.com" 
      8 "http://www.planetmysql.org/?offset=60" 
      8 "http://www.digg.com/linux_unix" 
      8 "http://diggriver.com/"