From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Nick Cairncross wrote: > > This is just a curiosity (whilst I have some time on my hands) and not >something I want to put into a live environment. > > I once stumbled across a site which offered a program/plug-in to scan the >access.log file and watch for .jpg .gif etc images. These image links were then >pulled from the log and then populated onto a constantly refreshing webpage to >provide a sort of 'mosaic' of images being viewed live. It >sounded...interesting, but I've never been able to find it again. I wondered if >anyone has seen such a thing or developed their own. > > Haven't heard of that one myself. But its trivial these days to write a daemon >script that accepts the log lines directly as squid generates them and does >things like that real-time. A quick and dirty untested shell script: #!/bin/bash WALLFILE=images_wall.html LOGFILE=/var/log/squid/access.log NB_IMG=50 SLEEP=10 while : do echo "<HTML>" > $WALLFILE.tmp echo " <HEADER>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp echo " <TITLE>Images Wall</TITLE>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp echo " <META HTTP-EQUIV='REFRESH' CONTENT='$SLEEP'>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp echo " </HEADER>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp echo " <BODY>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp awk ' { print $7 } ' $LOGFILE | grep "jpg$\|gif$" | tail -$NB_IMG | while read URL do echo " <IMG SRC='$URL'>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp done echo " </BODY>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp echo "</HTML>" >> $WALLFILE.tmp mv -f $WALLFILE.tmp $WALLFILE sleep $SLEEP done Needs to be adapted to your access log format (the $7 in awk is the 7th (url) column in the logfile lines)... You can also put it in cron and remove the main while loop and the sleep. JD