6 accesslog - Access logger for ashd(7)
10 *accesslog* [*-hFa*] [*-f* 'FORMAT'] 'OUTFILE' 'CHILD' ['ARGS'...]
15 The *accesslog* handler starts a single child handler which it passes
16 all requests it receives, but also logs information about every such
17 request to 'OUTFILE'. As for the format of the log records, see the
18 FORMAT section, below.
20 *accesslog* is a persistent handler, as defined in *ashd*(7), and the
21 specified child handler must also be a persistent handler.
23 If 'OUTFILE' is `-`, log records will be written on standard
24 output. Otherwise, the specified filename is opened in append mode and
25 kept open for as long as *accesslog* runs. SIGHUP can be sent to
26 *accesslog* in order to get it to reopen the log file, which can be
27 useful e.g. for log rotation.
29 If the child handler exits, *accesslog* exits as well.
36 Print a brief help message to standard output and exit.
40 Do not flush the log file buffers for each log record. (This
41 refers to the internal buffers, not the filesystem buffers.)
45 Use the specified 'FORMAT' string instead of the default log
46 record format. See the FORMAT section, below, for a
47 description of the 'FORMAT' string.
51 Try to emulate the Apache "combined" log format as closely as
52 possible. Currently, the remote user, identd user, status code
53 and number of sent bytes in Apache's combined format are
54 replaced with dashes. Effectively, the following format string
58 %A - - [%{%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z}t] "%m %u %v" - - "%R" "%G"
64 The log record format is specified with the *-f* option described
65 above. The format string is used as a template and certain fields are
66 expanded. Characters in the format string not matching such fields are
67 output as they are. A field is specified as a percent sign, followed
68 by an optional argument enclosed in braces, followed by a single
69 character specifying the item to log.
71 By default, the following format string is used:
74 %{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t %m %u %A "%G"
77 The following log items are currently specified:
81 Expands into the HTTP header named by 'HEADER'. If the
82 specified header does not exist in the request, *%h* expands
87 Expands into the entire raw URL part of the request.
91 Expands into the raw URL part of the request, with any query
92 string removed if present.
96 Expands into the HTTP method.
100 Expands into the HTTP version string.
104 Expands into the current rest string.
108 Expands into the current time, in RFC822 format, unless there
109 is an argument present, in which case the argument is used as
110 a format string to *strftime*(3). The time is expressed in the
115 As for *%t*, but UTC time is used instead.
119 Expands into the non-integral fraction of the second of the
120 current time, expressed in microseconds and padded with zeroes
121 to 6 digits. For example, *%{%H:%M:%S}t.%s* can be used to log
126 Expands into the `X-Ash-Address` header.
130 Expands into the `Host` header.
134 Expands into the `Referer` header.
138 Expands into the `User-Agent` header.
140 In any expanded field, any "unsafe" characters are escaped. Currently,
141 this means that double-quotes and backslashes are prepended with a
142 backslash, newlines and tabs are expressed as, respectively, `\n` and
143 `\t`, and any other byte less than 32 or greater than 127 is expressed
144 as `\xAA`, where `AA` is the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
151 Reopen the log file by name. If the log file name cannot be
152 re-opened, the old log file stream continues in use.
156 Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>