Archive for December, 2009

unneeded services

Step 1: Now we will remove all software groups, to get Centos to a minimum
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How to Install and Configure wtop – Apache Web Server Log Analyser

wtop is really cool application for web server log analysis and to see server stats at a glance. It also has powerful log grepping capability. It is just like ‘top’ for your webserver

It can find out number of searches or signups per seconds. It can also create histogram of response time. There is also another tool called logrep a powerful command-line program for ad-hoc analysis and filtering for log files. You can dig up lots of information using wtop tools.
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Apachetop is a curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.

Apachetop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.
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Log Files on a cPanel server

Following are the logs files on a cPanel server for different services:
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Shrinking ext3 partition

*** Make sure you have a back up prior to proceeding. ***
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