Looking for abusive clients in your web server logs

Here’s a quick tip on how to find IPs that may be hammering on your web server:

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cat access.log |cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 2 |sort|uniq -c | sort -nk 1
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Run that against your Apache access log and you’ll find out hits/IP address. Just check to be sure they aren’t Google before you block them![/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]