2007 Mar 15 - Thu

Implementing Live URL Tracking

To monitor browsing habits of company users, and to use the information for possible site blocking or traffic limiting with MasterShaper, URLSnarf along with a Perl script can be used to log specific items to a database and place the full capture results into a log file. The log file will be rotated with logrotate.

The Perl module Logfile::Access is key. On my machine it needed to be manually installed:

perl -MCPAN -eshell
  install Logfile::Access 
  # a missing file will be encountered
  exit
cd ~/.cpan/build/Logfile-Access-1.30/Access.pm
nano Access.pm 
  # change line 38 to '/etc/mime.types'
make 
make install