Re: [Gnump3d-users] access.log file

[Marty Huntzberry]

Thanks for the tips.  I'm looking into the sort and tail commands on my Linux 
network.  I also started a new access.log file for May and will do that for 
each month.  

Marty


On Mon, 01 May 2006 19:32:09 -0400
Stan Mulder <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marty Huntzberry wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to view my log file starting with the most recent 
> > entries at the beginning.  Currently the access.log file appends the most 
> > recent logs to the end of the file.  Can I change this?
> >   
> 
> Not sure if it's changeable. Files are easily appended to. Writing to 
> the top of a file is more disk intensive.
> 
> You can do this:
> 
> tail -20 /var/log/gnump3d/access.log
> 
> That will show that last 20 log entries. I suppose you could run that 
> output through a sorting process and sort on the date.
> 
> 
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