what is unwanted lines in the logfile

[Robban]

What does this mean in my website stats.

"unwanted lines in the logfile"

I got about 6000 of them so I'd thought it be a good idea what it means.

I host with GoDaddy and they are part of my free stats.

Cheers,

[GlowHost.com]

You should contact their support to see what exactly it means, that is if they have someone who knows who can answer it for you.

It sounds like a misconfiguration in their stats program. Stats programs typically scan a log file then generate reports based on what it finds.

Most programs would truncate, or not include whatever it considered to be "unwanted" instead of displaying them to you.

However, that may actually be part of the way the stats program runs. The docs for the program should be able to tell you more, but without knowing which brand of stats they use, I am only speculating.

I think I saw something like this with Analog stats before.

[Andilinks]

Raw logs direct from the server contain many very long queries from automated hacking/cracking programs that can be easily identified as such and deleted.

There are worms that generate queries of hundreds of the same character in succession and will hammer the server hundreds of times with the same query. Could be really evil people or just teens with time on their hands, who knows?

But this rubbish follows a pattern that the people who compile stats categorize into profiles and routinely remove from log files.

I don't know if that's exactly what GoDaddy is doing in this instance but it is something that happens regularly and is likely.

Andi

[kgun]

What is this:
http://www.fleege.com/robots.txt


Block as may as you can:

Examples:

http://multifinanceit.com/robots.txt

.htacces examples.
http://multifinanceit.com/htaccess.txt
http://multifinanceit.com/htaccess1.txt

If you implement these, may be your log files will be easier to read.

What about a spider trap?

The simplest spider trap is a folder that is blocked for good boots. Then if a Bot visits that folder, it is per definition a bad or an amateur programmer's bot. I have written more about how that can be automatized here at WPW.

Googling:
KW's: kgun + spider(trap) site:webproworld.com

or variants of that.