Re: upgrade causes disk full

An option would need to be added to not log files that are not 
available. That would just be a few lines of code.

    -Brian

On Mar 28, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Kyle Davenport wrote:

> Hi Brian et al.
>
>    I just upgraded to mod_mp3-0.40-1  (from .35!) and I'm pleased that 
> it fixed a few things, but one fix apparently was to do verbose 
> logging.  The unfortunate result was that some [expletive deleted] web 
> crawler (inktomi) repeatedly  requests non-existent links, and both my 
> httpd error log and mp3 log grow huge and fill up my root partition!  
> At the rate of about a gigabyte per hour it fills up fast too.  I get 
> millions of lines like this in the httpd error log:
>
> [Sun Mar 28 06:39:06 2004] [error] [client 66.196.90.77] File not 
> found: (null)(Bad address)
>
> and like this in my mp3.log:
>
> [26/Mar/2004:20:08:46 -0600] 59a19afd4878986d59e6be4e3c3d730d (null) 
> (null)
>
> I say they are non-existent because I can download a playlist of all 
> songs and I don't see that link in there.
> Any ideas?  OK, I just noticed I had a few files that were read-only 
> by root, and changed that.  Seems like all bad links should return an 
> empty file (instead of an error),  and I really don't care for them to 
> be logged at all.  Any directives for that?  For now I have had to 
> block that whole subnet, but it seems like a "Denial Of Service" 
> waiting to happen!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Kyle Davenport - unix sys admin consultant - Dallas TX
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