Yesterday I updated our Apache HTTPD to the latest version (2.2.8). Soon after this I noticed that HTTPD's access log was logging some stange requests:
::1 - - [13/Mar/2008:09:05:13 +0200] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
And what does the request do?
[asdf@foobar logs]# telnet localhost 5453
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:06:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Connection closed by foreign host.
I did a little research on the web and came up with the following links:
http://vdachev.net/blog/2007/02/01/apache-internal-dummy-connection/
http://apache.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/document/4_3Multitasking_server.html
It seems like the request above is called "Internal Dummy Connection", and it's a way for apache to let it's children processes know it's time to die. It's usually nothing you should worry about, but if you see many child processes spawn and die, you may want to configure MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers directives, and your MaxRequestsPerChild.
If you want to clean up your HTTPD access logs, you can do the following:
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr “::1″ dontlog
CustomLog /foo/bar/access.log combined env=!dontlog
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Discovering duplicate files
A while ago I had a problem. I had to change my file servers hard drives, and I didn't have large enough hard drive to take copies of. This lead to the situation where I had copies of my data spread on various computers, and after I got my server up and running again, I realized there were quite many duplicate files on my server.
Luckily I found a nice small application called fdupes. This program goes thru directories and creates MD5 sum of every file. After the process it compares the MD5 sums and lets the user know which files are duplicates.
Fdupes can be found on regular Fedora Core yum repository and the usage of the program is quite easy:
fdupes -r /share << the directory you want to scan, recursively
The program gives you nice list of the duplicate files
Luckily I found a nice small application called fdupes. This program goes thru directories and creates MD5 sum of every file. After the process it compares the MD5 sums and lets the user know which files are duplicates.
Fdupes can be found on regular Fedora Core yum repository and the usage of the program is quite easy:
fdupes -r /share << the directory you want to scan, recursively
The program gives you nice list of the duplicate files
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