{"id":966,"date":"2003-03-01T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/tail-f-access_log\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:43:39","slug":"tail-f-access_log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/tail-f-access_log\/","title":{"rendered":"tail -f access_log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A geek-fascinating look at traffic as a new weblog <a href=\"http:\/\/tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/02\/28\/Watching\" title=\"Is this thing on?\">is discovered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I&#8217;ve only ever run web sites on Apache or one of its ancestors, and this lineage of web servers has always written its statistics into a file named access&#95;log. I think anyone who&#8217;s running a Web site, or who cares about the Web, ought to, on a regular basis, spend some time watching the access&#95;log in real time.<\/p>\n<p>  Too often we get this image of the Web as a vast well-oiled machine, with glossy browser screens in front and masses of gleaming software in back. Watching the access&#95;log is like a window into the side lobby of the legislature, or a tour of the fermentation vats at the brewery.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/backissues\/2003\/03\/01#When:11:20:17AM\" title=\"Tim Bray...\">Dave Winer<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often we get this image of the Web as a vast well-oiled machine, with glossy browser screens in front and masses of gleaming software in back. Watching the access_log is like a window into the side lobby of the legislature, or a tour of the fermentation vats at the brewery.<\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}