[exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-02 Thread Tom Kistner
This has been sitting on my hard drive since last year. I have now managed to give it some documentation and release it. I'm using it myself and it really makes a difference sometimes. I'm looking for some feedback on the project before I announce it somewhere else. If there is sufficient intere

RE: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-02 Thread Dickenson, Steven
Tom Kistner wrote: > This has been sitting on my hard drive since last year. I have now > managed to give it some documentation and release it. I'm using it > myself and it really makes a difference sometimes. I'm looking for > some feedback on the project before I announce it somewhere else. J

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-02 Thread Tom Kistner
Tom Kistner wrote: Read the docs to find out what it can do. Pasted below for your convinience. Replying to myself: There is no usage section in the docs, but the usage is more or less intuitive. One important detail: When searching for strings (addresses, hostnames etc.), you must use SQ

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-02 Thread Rudi
Quoting Tom Kistner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This has been sitting on my hard drive since last year. I have now managed to give it some documentation and release it. I'm using it myself and it really makes a difference sometimes. I'm looking for some feedback on the project before I announce it som

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas Hager
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:57 +0200, Tom Kistner wrote: > If there is sufficient interest, I'll also finish the queue management > support it's supposed to have. :) wow, looks awesome! i'll keep using grep, awk, et al (i'm more the console type of guy *g*), but i sense that many of my customers long

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Dickenson, Steven wrote: Tom Kistner wrote: This has been sitting on my hard drive since last year. I have now managed to give it some documentation and release it. I'm using it myself and it really makes a difference sometimes. I'm looking for some feedback on the project before I anno

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Tom Kistner
Tom Kistner wrote: [ ... ] OK, fixed the first bunch of problems. I renamed exilog.conf to exilog.conf-example in the tarball so you can just unpack the new one over the old one without losing the configuration. 0.2 - Use FindBin to find out binary location - Fix bug in SQL quoting.

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Jun V03, 2005 at 11:17:36AM +0200, Tom Kistner wrote: > Tom Kistner wrote: > ... Looks great! I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and ano

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Jason Meers
You mention the need for better graphing tools in your post, try eximstate: http://www.olliecook.net/projects/eximstate/ We've been using it for about 2 years to monitor various exim servers around the UK from one central web page. We make it accessible to end users so they can check for them

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Jason Meers wrote: You mention the need for better graphing tools in your post, try eximstate: http://www.olliecook.net/projects/eximstate/ We've been using it for about 2 years to monitor various exim servers around the UK from one central web page. It certainly is good for monitorin

RE: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Dickenson, Steven
Matthew Newton wrote: > I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 > minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really > neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and another that > feeds traffic/spam data into an SQL database. Both these work on >

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Bendersky
Hi, first of all, thanks! your software is exactly what I was looking for for years. Are you planning to write a similar one for other software? maybe Dovecot, the POP3 and IMAP that is getting a standart because it's speed and security? Just one suggestion, at the instalation, I had some pr

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-05 Thread Jeremy Harris
Thanks Tom. We're running this now in production, to see what the less technical staff make of it. Tom Kistner wrote: When the agent is started, it will pump the current log file into the database (this can take a while), then tail it. It will automatically detect log rotation and re-o

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Kistner
Daniel Bendersky wrote: Are you planning to write a similar one for other software? maybe Dovecot, the POP3 and IMAP that is getting a standart because it's speed and security? Not really. Regarding Dovecot, I know that it's default logfile is rather sparse, so there's not much to parse ther

RE: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-06 Thread email lists
Great - just what I was looking for!! we are running sophos puremessage at a number of sites using exim instead of sendmail/postfix. Getting non-unix sysadmins how to traces messages through puremessage / exim is not easy for some clients as they much prefer a point-and-click style interface or w

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-06 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:29:18AM -0400, Dickenson, Steven wrote: > Matthew Newton wrote: > > I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 > > minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really > > neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and anothe

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-07 Thread Agusti
Very nice job. I'd like to report a bug... I use subject logs in messages (T=...) and your application thinks it's a destinatary and shows it badly. I'd be nice to ignore topic (subject) and even nicer to show it over each message... Really nice! A Dijous 02 Juny 2005 15:57, Tom Kistner va esc

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:29:18AM -0400, Dickenson, Steven wrote: > Matthew Newton wrote: > > I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 > > minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really > > neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and an

Re: [exim] Announce: "Exilog" - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:29:18AM -0400, Dickenson, Steven wrote: > Matthew Newton wrote: > > I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 > > minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really > > neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and anothe