UFDBANALYSE(1)

📦 version 1.35.8, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ ufdbAnalyse ✨

okay bestie, welcome to ufdbAnalyse from the ufdbGuard fam 💅 it lives in section 1 of the manual (that's the "commands you actually type" section, iykyk), and it is literally here to read your Squid logs and spill the tea on what URL categories your people are hitting.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ufdbAnalyse — parse a Squid log file and show URL category percentages 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ufdbAnalyse [options] <logfiles>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ufdb_analyse_urls is a log analysis utility, right? and what she does is: she parses one or more log files of Squid, retrieves the URLs out of them, and then uploads the stripped URLs to the servers of URLfilterDB, where they get analysed. 🔥

then the analysis, with the URL category report and everything, gets emailed to you. no cap, it just shows up in your inbox. 💌

and the various options? they control which URLs are included in the output. that's the whole vibe check. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -a — flag to indicate that the log file format is "Apache". 📝
  • -l <LOG> — specifies the Squid log file. you can specify multiple files, she can handle it. 👑
  • -d <FQDN> — specifies the fully qualified domainname of this site. any URLs with this FQDN get put in the pseudo-category "own domain". 🏠
  • -e <EMAIL> — specifies the email address of the person that receives teh generated analysis report. (yes, teh, the original said it that way, we're keeping it, it's iconic now 🫶)
  • -n <FULL NAME> — specifies the full name of the person that runs the analysis request. 🙋
  • -v — be verbose. 🗣️

😭 WARNINGS 😭

Analysis of urls is slow since (very) large log files are processed. It may take 50 seconds to process 400 MB on a common server. 💀

like, fr fr, do not sit there refreshing and panicking. she's working. give her a minute. or fifty. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The developers of ufdbGuard for Squid — https://www.urlfilterdb.com 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was Release 1.35, dated 22/03/2024. go forth and analyse those logs, you absolute main character. 🦋✨

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