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Check bots success POSTs in apache access log

Thu, 05/19/2011 - 16:20 — sandip

Here is a one liner to check for IPs of bots that are misusing your site.

$ awk '$6 ~ /POST/ && $9 ~ /200/ {print $1 " " $7}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail

This will give you the top 10 IPs and URIs with a hit count.

Consider blocking those rogue IPs with a high hit count via iptables.

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