On 22/01/06, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:27 PM -0500 2006-01-22, Bryan Carbonnell wrote: > > >> > Is there any facility within Mailman to determine the bandwidth used > >> > by a specific list? > >> > >> Since there is no inbuilt way to do this with Mailman, I wrote a > >> Python script to parse the POST log and take the size of the posts to > >> a specific list and then multiply that by the number of active > >> subscribers at the time this script was run.
> Thinking about this some more, this sounds kind of like what I'm > doing with the "MailMan Daily Status Report (mmdsr)" script, which > you can find at Actually your script gave me the idea that it may be possible. > I'm working to get this included in the contrib/ directory of > Mailman, so that everyone will get a copy of it with the tarball, as > opposed to having to download it separately. Hopefully it'll be there with v2.1.8. It's a great script. > Of course, my stuff is written in Bourne shell and not Python, > but there might be some stuff there that you find useful. I > recommend you check it out and see what you think. I'm using it now and its working wonders. The only thing I have noticed was when I rotated the logs, the e-mailed results would all be 0 or empty depending on if it was supposed to be a string or a numeric. It takes a restart of Mailman to get the stats going again. > If you find anything useful and that you want to incorporate into > your tool, I would ask that you please let me know, although that > isn't required according to the terms of the BSD-style license that I > use. I used your idea that the script can e-mail the results. I looked at what you did and then figured out how to send an e-mail via Python. > If you've got stuff that you think I might find interesting, I'd > appreciate getting more information from you on the kind of output > you think is useful and how you're creating it. Will do. -- Bryan Carbonnell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp