{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15190,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tbray.org\\\/ongoing\\\/When\\\/200x\\\/2003\\\/02\\\/28\\\/Watching&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260116014625\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tbray.org\\\/ongoing\\\/When\\\/200x\\\/2003\\\/02\\\/28\\\/Watching&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:20:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 21:55:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 21:55:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15191,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/scriptingnews.userland.com\\\/backissues\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/01#When:11:20:17AM&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200507075111\\\/http:\\\/\\\/scriptingnews.userland.com\\\/backissues\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/01&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:20:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 07:35:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 07:35:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}