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Maybe you should use tcpdump. For example<br />
tcpdump ip src &lt;ip_number&gt; &gt;&gt;&nbsp;access.ip.log
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Maybe you should use tcpdump. For example
tcpdump ip src <ip_number> >> access.ip.log

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I need to create a monthly summary of the web usage of a particular IP through our proxy server.<br />
We are using squid, but do not wish to log the entire month's usage for our entire customer base!<br />
My current plan is to run tail -f /usr/local/squid/logs/acce<wbr />ss.log |grep &lt;ip&gt; &gt;&gt;&nbsp;/usr/local/squid/logs/acce<wbr />ss.ip.log<br />
&nbsp;constantly in the background and have a cron job that will take this log, and run calamari on it monthly to generate <br />
the report. This does not seem too elegant, but with limited C and Perl knowledge, can anyone reccomend a better way?
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I need to create a monthly summary of the web usage of a particular IP through our proxy server.
We are using squid, but do not wish to log the entire month's usage for our entire customer base!
My current plan is to run tail -f /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log |grep <ip> >> /usr/local/squid/logs/access.ip.log
 constantly in the background and have a cron job that will take this log, and run calamari on it monthly to generate 
the report. This does not seem too elegant, but with limited C and Perl knowledge, can anyone reccomend a better way?

Logging and summarizing squid usage

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