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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:18:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] URGENT: Getting hammered by an adsl user...logs
 growing...

Hello Ian,

You mentioned in a later post that you were able to stop and restart apache.
  In that case, while it isn't a long term solution, when you stop apache 
you could rename the existing log file and gzip it.

Then apache will create a new log file. While this isn't the best solution,
  it will at least let you compress the existing log file for now until your 
co-loc can take positive action.

Dale

On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 09:52  AM, Ian M. Evans wrote:

> In the past few hrs., we've rec'd over 200,000 requests from an IP that
> appears to be a Belgian ADSL users. It's the same page request over and 
> over
> except each subsequent request seems to have an additional '/1' appended 
> to
> it so the URL gets longer and longer.
>
> I've denied the IP, but now both my error and access logs are ballooning.
> What can I do so I can actually go to bed without waking up to a lack of
> diskspace?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Ian Evans
> Chairman & Executive Producer
> Digital Hit Entertainment
> http://www.digitalhit.com


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