i have been using some commands i have came across to get upto the second stats like

cat access_log | grep 30/Aug/2002 > ../../domain.com/httpdocs/domain.com.txt

and like

cat access_log | grep 30/Aug/2002 | mail -s "todays hits" myemail@domain.com

most of you know what those 2 do. could somone tell me what i would type to get the ammount of hits for today i not quite sure what i need to run :(

thanks for all the help and i hope these commands i have posted help others out

grep 30/Aug/2002 access_log -c > hits.txt

thanks alot man it worked ;)

686060

thats how many so far lol

Sounds like a popular web site.

yea its a xp1600 @ Atrivo ;)

pushing alot of bandwidth

http://xemup.wofut.com/mrtg/

and a nice load ;)

http://xemup.wofut.com/uptime.php

i'm glad its holding up this well for so many hits lol

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699414 - wow its still getting hit pretty hard ;)
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Looks good.