I am not going to ask why logs are printed in real-time to a dot-matrix printer. Maybe that is next best to sounding an alarm bell?
Apart from using something like "Redirect(Match)? (403|gone) /sumthin" which you already do, what about directing error logs to a pipe that filters the entries you do not want to print? -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:27 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org; Joel Bjurström Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ignore requests On 5/9/05, Joel Bjurström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a victim for this annoying /sumthin-attack, I get quite a > few requests for that dir, that's very annoying, 'cause my (not very > silent) dot-matrix printer is printing my error_log ;) So now i wonder > if i can make apache simply ignore requests for /sumthin, so it gives > no http-header, nothing. > Now I'm using "Redirect gone /sumthin" in my .htaccess, so I don't get > any errors in error_log, but it would (IMO) be better to just drop the > request. Is that possible? No. Apache doesn't drop requests. I think you are addressing the problem from the wrong angle. Your problem is a very bad log management system. If you managed your logs more efficiently, these requests wouldn't be a problem. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
