Re: Concurrent users logged in

From: Joel Taqueban <jtaqueba@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 10:53:57 +0800

The 'netstat ....' did help but how do you show those users or IPs who are
currently connecting via the proxy (i mean , 1 user = 1 ip which has currently
open HTTP/FTP connections)?

thanking in the meantime,
Joel

Graham Somers wrote:

> Try
>
> netstat -na |grep "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyyy" | cut -c45- | cut -d':' -f1 |
> sort | uniq | wc -l
>
> where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip number of your proxy machine and yyyy is
> the port number it runs on.
> You may have to fiddle with the cut values to get what you are looking
> for.
> It is not very accurate but will give you an idea. Hope it helps
>
> Graham
>
> Joel Taqueban wrote:
> >
> > With Linux, when 'who' is issued you already know how many users are
> > currently logged in. With Squid, how should I determine or know the
> > users currently accessing the web via the proxy". Sorry for being
> > stubborn but I am a newbie to this thing. hope for your
> > understanding...
> >
> > Dancer wrote:
> > >
> > > Joel Taqueban wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have searched the FAQs and still couldn't find my inquiry re
> > > > "how would i know how many concurrent users are currently logged in to
> > > > my proxy at a given time". Could someone please help....
> > > >
> > > > joel
> > >
> > > Since HTTP is stateless the answer would be zero. That's a useless and
> > > unhelpful answer, however. You _can_ write software to determine this,
> > > but first you have to define what 'logged in' means.
> > >
> > > D
>
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Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 19:43:35 MST

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