Re: How to find count of users past x seconds on Apache web server?

Google Mike wrote:
> {Note, I have RH9 Linux with its default Apache web server (critical
> update updated) and my default shell is Bash.}
>
> Does anyone have a Bash script that allows one to find out how many
> users they've had on their Apache web server in the past x seconds? I
> imagine it would deal with using grep or tail and looking either at
> the logfile or at something that tells me the last time a daemon or
> TCP socket was utilized.
>
> The reason I ask is because I have an intranet web server and
> sometimes the programmers create a bug that requires me to bounce the
> web server, unfortunately, mid-day, in order to resolve it. Since the
> web apps are stateless, this doesn't usually cause a client problem
as
> long as I give advance warning like, "Need to bounce the web server
at
> 11:00pm. Please log out before 10:55pm and get back in at 11:05pm or
> later." By using the above Bash script, I could detect whether or not
> someone was playing along with my advice or not.

It won't give you the specific number you are looking for, but the
server-status output of mod_status can give you a very good idea of
what is happening on your server *right now*.

Joshua.