Guys, Thank you all for your input. I can't believe how helpful this list is and I'm very grateful. Ok so here is what I have so far of my script to get the number of apache requests to a given host: #!/bin/bash # this script parses mod_status to see which hosts are getting the most requests echo “Time:” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /usr/bin/ts >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo -e “\n” >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo “hostname” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /bin/hostname -f >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo -e “\n” >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo “hostname ip” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /bin/hostname -i >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo -e “\n” >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo “Requests per second:” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /usr/bin/GET http://$(/bin/hostname -i)/server-status | /bin/grep -i -e request -e requests/sec | grep -i -v -e currently -e code -e ss | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d'>' -f2 >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo “Requests processed / Idle workers:” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /usr/bin/GET http://$(hostname -i)/server-status | /bin/grep -i -e requests -e currently | grep -v -e requests/sec | cut -d'>' -f2 | cut -d'<' -f1 >> /tmp/apache_request_log echo -e “\n\n” >> /tmp/apache_request_log /bin/sleep 60 So now my question is, is there any way to limit the size of the output log from within the script without having to use logrotate? I can use that, but I would prefer to do that from within the script if that's possib.e Thanks Tim On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Patrick Bervoets < patrick.bervoets at psc-elsene.be> wrote: > > op 03-06-14 15:18, schreef Tim Dunphy: > > [root at uszmpwslp014lc ~]# GET http://$(hostname -i)/server-status | >> grep >> -i requests/sec >> <dt>4.08 requests/sec - 80.9 kB/second - 19.8 kB/request</dt> >> >> >> That works ok. And next I'm grepping it back down and awking it to just >> the >> part I'm interested in: >> >> [root at uszmpwslp014lc ~]# GET http://$(hostname -i)/server-status | grep >> -i >> -e request -e requests/sec | grep -i -v -e currently -e code -e ss | awk >> '{print $1}' >> <dt>4.08 >> >> But now I need to get rid of just the <dt> in front of the 4.08? >> > cut --delimiter=">" --field=2 > > you could even get rid of the awk and pipe your grep to cut > --delimiter=">" --field=2 | cut --delimiter=" " --field=1 > > But there are many different ways to solve this. > > greetings > Patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B