Shirley,

>any apache expert out there

Forgive this reply from a non-expert ;-)

>While I'm at it. Is there any program for checking the logs, or do I make
>one of my own.

I have recently give wwwstat a try, which seems to be quite popular.
It's written in PERL, so you need PERL from the freeware tape (or from
Mark Bixby's download site), but you don't need to know PERL to just
run the wwwstat package on your logfiles.

See http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/

Lars.

BTW, doesn't seem that you need the whole PERL account for just running
Perl scripts. I sometimes purge the source (sub)directory to free space.