Your personal access log combines all FTP and WWW accesses to your site into a single, integrated, readable log. You also have the option of having your accesses stored in a common log file format log, or in both formats.
WWW 11/03/94 05:13:40 129.177.211.114 gnosis101.html 16214 WWW 11/03/94 05:41:11 ikarus.ethz.ch (default home page) 8147 WWW 11/03/94 05:41:15 ikarus.ethz.ch graphics/peace_dove.xbm 1791 WWW 11/03/94 05:41:17 ikarus.ethz.ch graphics/owl.gif 464 WWW 11/03/94 06:20:33 freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (default home page) 8147 FTP 11/03/94 06:49:08 djoy@moose.uvm.edu www/gnosis101.html 16214 FTP 11/03/94 06:53:03 djoy@moose.uvm.edu www/jcs.html 16564 WWW 11/03/94 07:10:45 moose.uvm.edu (default home page) 8147 FTP 11/03/94 07:11:27 djoy@moose.uvm.edu www/overview.html 7020 FTP 11/03/94 07:15:46 djoy@moose.uvm.edu www/sufi.mystica.html 14806 FTP 11/03/94 07:19:41 djoy@moose.uvm.edu www/update.html 2415 WWW 11/03/94 07:27:41 pslip133.egr-ri.ids.net (default home page) 8147 WWW 11/03/94 07:28:38 pslip133.egr-ri.ids.net overview.html 7020 WWW 11/03/94 07:47:31 bso-cli-pc.jhuapl.edu (default home page) 8147 WWW 11/03/94 07:47:32 bso-cli-pc.jhuapl.edu graphics/peace_dove.xbm 1791 WWW 11/03/94 07:47:33 bso-cli-pc.jhuapl.edu graphics/owl.gif 464 WWW 11/03/94 07:51:54 kraz.process.com (default home page) 8147
The first column contains the access method:
The second and third columns are the date and time the access ocurred.
The fourth column is the accesser; sometimes a valid email address, sometimes and invalid email address, and sometimes an Internet machine address only (domain name or IP address). A more detailed explanation of this is available.
The fifth column is the file accessed. (default home page) means the person did not request a specific file, so the Web server returned to them your default home page, either welcome.html or index.html
The sixth and final column is the number of bytes transferred to or from your site in the access.
This log file is automatically updated for you if you have a directory called "logs" in your home directory. You can delete or rename the log file in your logs directory; the system will simply create a new one and start appending to it as soon as you next have an access. (NOTE: If you do not have a logs directory, and you create one, there will be up to a one hour delay before logging begins; the system does only checks for the addition of a logs directory every hour.)
If you do not wish to maintain a log, you can either have the periodic activity report delete the log file for you after each time it sends you a report, or you can remove the "logs" subdirectory from your home directory, and the system will stop recording an access log for you. If you remove the logs subdirectory and thus terminate access logging, you cannot receive the periodic activity report.
You can also have your log recorded in the "Common Log Format" native to Netscape, NCSA, CERN, and other Web servers. This log format is not as readable and compact as the WebCom log format, but you may wish to have a common log so you can use public domain log analysis tools which require common log format. This common log behaves just like the log; you can delete or rename the log file in your "clogs" directory, and the system will create a new one and resume recording the next time you have an access, or you can delete the "clogs" subdirectory to terminate logging in the common format altogether.
The periodic activity report works off the WebCom log format (in the logs subdirectory) only; if you want to receive a periodic activity report you must maintain a WebCom format log (however you can configure the report to delete the WebCom log file after each report is mailed to you, so that the disk space used by the WebCom log is trivial and will not build up.
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