Thanks for the info Charles, but I'm confused. How do most of you folks
pull out information from your logs? Log files generated by qmail are
unreadable/unusable in the current (multilog) format. In order for them to
make sense to me, and in order to sift them for specific dates I have to
convert them to human readable format. I can do this with tai64nlocal.
Once I have removed data that is not pertinent I then have to change them
back into multilog format using tai64n, and then convert them into the older
TAI64 format that qmailanalog understands, then run them through the
qmailanalog scripts.
Wow, that's a convoluted process using tools that until now had worked
together to provide a graceful solution to my email needs.
At the sake of being redundant, how do ya'll do it?
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:54 AM
To: Qmail Mailing List
Subject: Re: qmailanalog
Drew Hawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to know how many messages were sent/failed etc. for a given period
of
> time (say the last three days).
>
> I have done the following in both /var/log/qmail/qmail-send and
> /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd (I'll admit my ignorance and say that I don't
> know the difference between the two. Is qmail-send local deliveries and
> qmail-smtpd remote deliveries?):
No. qmail-smtpd is incoming mail via SMTP. qmail-send is all deliveries,
local and remote.
> 1) Ran "matchup" on /var/log/qmail/qmail-send(smtpd)/current
> 2) Converted the "matchedup" version of "current" into human readable
> format using tai64nlocal
> 3) Pulled out dates for which I want to see log results from the file
> created above
> 4) Convert the data above to tai64 format using tai64n
> 5) Ran this data through zoverall to see qmailanalog results
>
> Regardless of whether I run it against /var/log/qmail/qmail-send or
> /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd I get the following:
> ++++++++++++
> Completed messages: 0
>
> Total delivery attempts: 0
> ++++++++++++
> Am I anywhere near doing this right?
No. Instead of converting the tai64n timestamps to human-readable, you need
to convert them to the fractional seconds (tai) that qmail-analog expects.
You can do this with tai64n2tai, included in Bruce Guenter's qlogtools
package
if I remember correctly. His software is at untroubled.org .
Charles
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