On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 16:26, Christos E. Chrisostomidis wrote: > It could be possible to examine the whole access.log to find relevant > information. > tail -f will only log activity started by the time I hit the command. of course. Weren't you looking for an "instant monitor"? > I did a small script to look into access log and get the information. > However, the script needs to go through every single entry in order to > determine > if there is a download and if this download is still active. > > I though that using a network monitor I would be able to find the same > info > very quickly since it will return the current active connections in the > network. a network monitor will in fact monitor the network -- that's not a joke: it will give you information at the network and connection level, i.e. tcp/ip. It will not show you usernames (but maybe you can reverse-map local IPs to users? -- that depends on your network), nor complete URLs. Sorry if I misunderstood your question. pc -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list