How To Suppress Apache Error

I've gone through the trouble of blocking a number of bots that are trying to crawl our site. The issue now is that the following error is taking over the apache error log:

client denied by server configuration

I was hoping that an Apache expert out there can tell me how I can suppress the error message for this specific issue from being written to the error log.

Thanks in advance for your help!

From serverfault Russell C.

• grep -v

  Really. I mean it. Why manipulate the logs at time of writing?

  Edit 1

  tail -f -n100 /var/log/httpd/error_log | grep -v 'client denied by server configuration'

  If you really want to prevent the error from being written to disk, you can pipe your logs through a script. More details here:

  Apache docs

  Russell C. : @Warner - Fair enough. Any ideas how I can change the following command I currently use to view the log file so that it suppresses those errors? tail -100 /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

  Russell C. : @Warner - Thanks! That seems to produce something slightly different since it first grabs 100 lines of the error log and then only shows non-matching lines. Is there a way to instead display the last 100 lines that don't match?

  Warner : Try this: `grep -v 'client denied by server configuration' /etc/httpd/logs/error_log | tail -n100`

  Russell C. : @Warner - works great. Thanks for the help!
  From Warner