Managing Apache Logs
Apache provides several tools for managing your logs. Other Apache-specific third-party tools are available and are mentioned here. Because Apache can log requests in the Common Log Format, most generic log processing tools can be used with Apache as well.
Resolving Hostnames
Earlier in the chapter, you learned how to use the HostNameLookups directive to enable or disable hostname resolution at the time the request is made. If HostNameLookups is set to off (the default), the log file will contain only IP addresses. Later, you can use the command-line logresolve utility on Unix or logresolve.exe on Windows to process the log file and convert the IP addresses to hostnames.
logresolve reads log entries from standard input and ...
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