Thanks Chris, this explains everything. Originally I wrote about bots and spiders generating a lot of errors on my site and someone suggested that I use the session manager plugin to suppress them:
http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users/browse_thread/thread/cf7f5b2d6f232717/6093c1dcac5071f1?lnk=gst&q=spider#6093c1dcac5071f1 But it seems that I should have followed my initial thought and actually get rid of the error :) Only problem is, I don't know how. It seems like the bots generate errors from a whole list of seemingly arbitrary lines in my home.php. Thanks, Thor On Dec 4, 4:42 pm, "Chris Meller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be clear, define "log". Entering "slurp" on a single line in the session > manager plugin should prevent entries from being created in the sessions > table. If there are errors / etc. actually being logged, they will still > show up in the Logs page - the two have nothing to do with each other. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Thor Frølich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This I've tried also. But my log is still filling up from IPs > > attributed to yahoo's Slurp. Either the session manager plugin is > > broken or I don't meet its regexp expectations. > > > On Dec 2, 5:10 pm, "Matt Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > try putting a match for each useragent to block on a new line, so to > > > block slurp, and googlebot it would look like: > > > > slurp > > > googlebot > > > > Note that the matches are case-insensitive. > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Thor Frølich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Since I'm no good with regular expressions how would I go about > > > > excluding all user-agent with the string "slurp" in it? > > > > > Using > > > > > =Slurp= > > > > > doesn't seem to work. > > > > > Thor > > > > > On Nov 28, 3:19 am, "Chris Meller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> It performs a preg_match() against the user agent. > > > > >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Thor Frølich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >> > How exactly does one use the session manager plugin? Do you feed it > > an > > > >> > IP address or does it take a user agent string? If it wants IPs, is > > it > > > >> > possible to specify a range to be omitted from the logs? And how? > > > > >> > I'd love to RTFM but I haven't been able to find one. > > > > >> > Thanks, > > > > >> > Thor > > > > >> -- > > > > >> Mae West - "I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far." > > > > -- > > > Matt Readhttp://mattread.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
