Thomas, > Amavisd-nanny is a great tool to get a quick overview of amavisd-new's > current state. Some time ago I've used a modified version, as there as > been no "-c" switch - now it is even easier to script it. We are for > example parsing and embedding it's output in a web application allowing > our support team to see what's currently going on (even if they don't > use it, as it is always running smoothley ;-)). > > As amavisd-nanny is also cleaning up naughty childs I decided to run > it in a cron job. However, redirecting all STDERR and STDOUT to my > nirvana is not really what I usually prefer to do. Information about > failing processes should still be mailed to sysadmin. > > Currently there is nothing but "exited" (and SIG failures) to be found > in STDERR. "exited" should not be there (it would trigger a mail for > each time called by cron) - other output (currently only sent to STDOUT) > is however really interesting. > > Attached to this post you can find a small patch showing how I would > like to change amavisd-nanny to "improve" it's bevahiour, making it > ready to be used out of the box in your crontab, being called as > follows: > > amavisd-nanny -c 1 >/dev/null > > That's all, feedback / improvements are welcome.
Thanks, accepted! It will be in 2.6.4 (eventually). Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
