FC4 Web Server Admins - Figured it out

[Christian Motta]

thx Jean-Philippe for pointing me in the direction of the curl program - 
I thought it was just a library.

Seems one of my users was using curl in a web prog

-chris

Jean-Philippe BATTU wrote:

>Hello Chris
>
>The messages written after the favicon.ico lines are the output of curl
>program which is used to transfer an URL
>
>for example, if you try : curl -f -L -O http://jeanpba.homeip.net/index.php
>you will get this output :
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>100  4565  100  4565    0     0   4857      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1611k
>because the URL exists.
>and in your case curl failed due to "failed writing body"
>
>Do you have any sub program which tries to download something and have been
>run in the same environnment of your web server ? The command should be :
>curl /home... ? could you look for this program in your environnment ?
>
>Cheers
>
>
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>>I am seeing strange log entries in my apache error_log on my FC4 server.
>>Does anyone else have it?
>>[Tue Jan 03 13:16:31 2006] [error] [client 63.200.180.84] File does not
>>exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
>>[Tue Jan 03 13:16:40 2006] [error] [client 63.200.180.84] File does not
>>exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
>>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>>Current
>>                                Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
>>Speed
>>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
>>--:--:--     0
>>curl: (23) Failed writing body
>>[Tue Jan 03 14:12:53 2006] [error] [client 64.152.49.162] File does not
>>exist: /home
>>It looks like someone is getting apache to run a program to download
>>something.
>>thx
>>-chris
>>    
>>
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>Jean-Philippe BATTU
>Grenoble
>FRANCE
>Site Web: http://www.geocities.com/jeanpba
>http://jeanpba.homeip.net
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