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From time to time things tend to go wrong and systems tend to go crazy. Sometimes these errors are more of nuisance than anything else, an intermittent annoyance you'd prefer not to investigate -- trawling through logs is a pain in the backside. Now you need to take a peak at those compressed Apache error log files, ugh! Well before you look for suitable places to hang some rope try running some expressions across a certain number of files. Normally you'd only want to look at logs for the last 7 days, so lets give that a go.

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Today I got the urge to see how many logins we had on some of our Apache servers in November. We host more than one moodle site on one server and so I wanted the total number of logins we handled. As usual this ended up becoming an awkward but useful one liner.

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