Web Bugs easily used

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Originally Posted by Budda

I was wondering how I could make it easier to read the fact that someone "looked" at a graphic I linked in an forum or email. I know that any attempt to load the url will be recorded in the logs of the server it is hosted at. But considering that it is a linux server (suse 9.0) and i hardly know anything about linux, how can i get to this information?
Is there an easier way to do this? I would just like to know how many people looked at the email or post.
I know most forums actually show the "viewed" number but what about picture that are linked with a text link?
Any Ideas would be great...

If you have shell access to the server, or at least access to the logs, pulling the information out is relatively simple. Without this kind of access, I can't think of a good way to do it--if you had a host that allowed scripting you could link pseudo-images that displayed the image and a the same time took a count or tracked the page hit, but that's probably be more difficult than worthwhile.

If you do have shell access or access to your site's access logs, post back and I can give a short synopsis of how to gather the data from them.