qmail-mrtg does not use cyclog output it uses multilog.. multilog is found
in the daemontools package.
Sean
- Original Message -
From: jcarreiro
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:58 AM
Subject: CYCLOG logger ?
hi all !
i'm setting up the qmail-mrtg tool :)
b
jcarreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> but it seems that it needs qmail logged with cyclog (actually i use
> multilog). i read somewhere that cyclog it's part of the daemontools
> package. i got daemontools 0.70 but can't find the cyclog binaries or
> cyclo
hi all !
i'm setting up the qmail-mrtg tool :)
but it seems that it needs qmail logged with cyclog
(actually i use multilog).
i read somewhere that cyclog it's part of the
daemontools package.
i got daemontools 0.70 but can't find the cyclog
binaries or cyclog.c file in the
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:02:57PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Now according to the man page for cyclog:
> >
> > cyclog [ -ssize ] [ -nnum ] [ -mmargin ] dir
> [...]
> > Is there a space needed
Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now according to the man page for cyclog:
>
> cyclog [ -ssize ] [ -nnum ] [ -mmargin ] dir
[...]
> Is there a space needed between the -s or not?
No. You don&#x
Hi All,
I'm looking to make my log files /var/qmail/log hold more
info before starting a new file with cyclog:
I have modified my startup script line to look like this
for cyclog:
/usr/local/bin/cyclog -s256000 /var/log/qmail (start and
end stuff left off to save space)
Now acco
* Olivier M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010119 18:52]:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:34:22PM -0600, Sean C Truman wrote:
> > Sorry it will not. works with multilog output!
>
> ok, so now is there a way to convert an accustamp-based log
> to an tai64-based log ?
Your friend and mine, Bruce Guenter, has
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:34:22PM -0600, Sean C Truman wrote:
> Sorry it will not. works with multilog output!
ok, so now is there a way to convert an accustamp-based log
to an tai64-based log ?
something like : @400037c219bf2ef02e94 -> 979946339.800490
(I have 3 solutions : find a way t
Sorry it will not. works with multilog output!
Sean
- Original Message -
From: "Olivier M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sean C Truman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "QMail List"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:16 PM
Subject: qmail-mrtg 2.3 : will it work with cyclog ?
ork with cyclog ?
The only part which is currently working is qmail-mrtg-queue. For the rest:
omega:/usr/local/src/mail/qmailmrtg.2.3/qmailmrtg # cat /var/log/qmail/\@* | qmailmrtg
-1
0
0
omega:/usr/local/src/mail/qmailmrtg.2.3/qmailmrtg # cat /var/log/qmail/\@* | qmailmrtg
-2
0
0
omega:/usr/l
From were do i get cyclog.. i instaled daemontools...
But there is no cyclog... should i use multilog insted.. and if so.. how
do i uset it...
Thakyou...
Seby...
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Steve Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having trouble finding CYCLOG... I've searched Freshmeat.net and
> come up empty. If it comes with a particular package, which package?
> And if (on the odd chance) I have already installed that package, where
> would I fin
I am having trouble finding CYCLOG... I've searched Freshmeat.net and come
up empty. If it comes with a particular package, which package? And if
(on the odd chance) I have already installed that package, where would I
find CYCLOG on the average system? Thanks.
Steve.
Clifford Thurber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could anyone give me some feedback on what the pros and cons of using
>cyclog or multilog vs. splogger. I have just installed multilog and at
>first glance it appears a little odd but maybe I am just not that familiar
>with it yet.
Hello,
Could anyone give me some feedback on what the pros and cons of using
cyclog or multilog vs. splogger. I have just installed multilog and at
first glance it appears a little odd but maybe I am just not that familiar
with it yet. Thanks in advance.
Clifford Thurber
Web Systems Administrator
Robert Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My question is now, where do I get cyclog from? I just downloaded
>daemontools-0.61 (all my sources state that it is included there), but after
>compiling nothing looks like an executable named cyclog...
Cyclog has been replaced
Hi!
My question is now, where do I get cyclog from? I just downloaded
daemontools-0.61 (all my sources state that it is included there), but after
compiling nothing looks like an executable named cyclog...
Greetings
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Michael Boman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have big problems to get cyclog to log. Here is my SMTP init script:
>
>/usr/local/bin/supervise /var/run/smtp \
>/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 1000 \
>-u 1001 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2&g
I have big problems to get cyclog to log. Here is my SMTP init script:
/usr/local/bin/supervise /var/run/smtp \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -H -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 1000 \
-u 1001 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 \
| setuser qmaill cyclog -s 100 /var/log/smtp &
Has anybody successfully used logwatch to process cyclog logs?
Chris
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how many
other times do I come across with filenames that start with metacharacters?
=)
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question about cyclog
"Steve Kapinos" <[EM
"Steve Kapinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How the heck can I enter in the shell the file name of the logs cyclog puts
>out?
>
>@ is a reserved character it seems.. if I want to pico a log, what do I need
>to put around the @ so I can actually enter the fil
How the heck can I enter in the shell the file name of the logs cyclog puts
out?
@ is a reserved character it seems.. if I want to pico a log, what do I need
to put around the @ so I can actually enter the file name?
-Steve
winmail.dat
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:27:16 -0600, Julian Alvarez Venegas wrote:
>cyclog: warning: unable to create @0943808845, pausing: access denied
You should read the error message: cyclog gets "access denied" when
trying to create the log file. Thus, the user it runs under (set in
Hello all!,
Why is it that when I start qmail manually I get warning messages that do
not affect qmail's functions, at least, that is what I have noticed.
However, I would like to know these warning messages appear and how can I
fix it.
Thanks in advance!
Raul
cyclog: warning: unab
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> (I'm sorry if this is not the right list...)
>
> Regarding the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter.
>
> I would appreciate a sample of how to use this feature.
What would you like to know?
The (patc
Hi!
(I'm sorry if this is not the right list...)
Regarding the cyclog patch by Bruce Guenter.
I would appreciate a sample of how to use this feature.
Thanks.
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0971-554 52, 070-346 43 02
Marcin Jaskowiak writes:
> Anyway, is that possible to log user name when someone is connecting via
> pop3d (e.g. the name from 'USER ' string)?
Everything is possible with qmail. The easiest way to do that -- not
necessarily the best -- is to create a shell script, say, my-pop3d,
that looks
Russell Nelson wrote:
> That *is* the time/date stamp. Filter the log file through tailocal
> to see the time in the format you expect.
Thanks. It work.
Anyway, is that possible to log user name when someone is connecting via
pop3d (e.g. the name from 'USER ' string)?
Hookahey!
Marcin Jaskow
Marcin Jaskowiak writes:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to make cyclog to put his logging activity time/date
> stamp into log file?
> 940298143.250819 new msg 768173
That *is* the time/date stamp. Filter the log file through tailocal
to see the time in the format you exp
Hi,
Does anyone know how to make cyclog to put his logging activity time/date
stamp into log file?
I'm running qmail with above command :
"/usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog /var/log/qmail &"
and the contents of log files
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Peter Samuel writes:
> > The reson I'm doing it this way is that my log files are reasonably
> > large (8Mb per day) and groking a big file every 5 minutes to extract
> > a small section is loading up the system a bit too much.
>
> That's why you u
The sample rc scripts I'm using to run qmail-send and -smtpd already run
cyclog (and it all works fine) but I've added the pop3 line to the rc
file myself and can't get logging to run properly by simply adding the
cyclog stuff between "Maildir" and the closing &q
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Peter Samuel writes:
> > The reson I'm doing it this way is that my log files are reasonably
> > large (8Mb per day) and groking a big file every 5 minutes to extract
> > a small section is loading up the system a bit too much.
>
> That's why you u
Peter Samuel writes:
> The reson I'm doing it this way is that my log files are reasonably
> large (8Mb per day) and groking a big file every 5 minutes to extract
> a small section is loading up the system a bit too much.
That's why you use lots of little files (on average the same size as
the
oo. While I think that time based
logging would be good, (and the only problem I can see is running out
of disk space) we don't have it yet.
I'm experimenting with something like the following
supervise -r dir process | accustamp | mrtg_logger | cyclog $LOG
The mrtg_logger is simple per
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > Request to DJB: time-based logging in multilog would be very useful to
> > many people. Please consider it as an option besides size-based
> > rotation, somewhat like FreeBSD's newsyslog. I do understand that
> > time-based logging cou
Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> Request to DJB: time-based logging in multilog would be very useful to
> many people. Please consider it as an option besides size-based
> rotation, somewhat like FreeBSD's newsyslog. I do understand that
> time-based logging could fill up a disk, but that's a risk an end-
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 04:50:47PM -0700, Jan Stanik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to start new log file for qmail every day.I use cyclog, but
> there I can set log file size only. Is it possible rotate logs every day?
Neither cyclog nor multilog provide for time-based rotatio
Jan Stanik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to start new log file for qmail every day.I use cyclog, but
> there I can set log file size only. Is it possible rotate logs every day?
One of my planned hacks is to modify the logging code so that it obtains
the time stamp (I guess it prob
Hi,
I need to start new log file for qmail every day.I use cyclog, but
there I can set log file size only. Is it possible rotate logs every day?
Thanks,
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telenor Internet,s.r.o
accustamp and cyclog have been replaced by tai64n and multilog
respectively.
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Ari Arantes Filho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed daemonstools0.61, but I can't find accustamp and cyclog.
> Where can I find them?
>
Hi,
I've installed daemonstools0.61, but I can't find accustamp and cyclog.
Where can I find them?
Best regards,
Ari
I had this idea...
> in my free time (in a month? :-) I want to start working on a log
> reviewing tool for cyclog. right now it's very inconveniant to run less on
> a random logfile, since the filename changes once in a while, plus the
> time stamps are not human readable. an
>> On 28 Jul 1999 11:22:56 -0400,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Levine) said:
J> What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
J> come up with a good way to do that with cyclog.
I munged some of the cyclog code around to make it write to a file
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:24:06AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I specifically remember that there was a cyclog modification which
> allowed one to process a log file which was being rotated out rather
> than just unlinking it.
I wrote one such patch. The patch is in:
htt
Doug Lumpkin writes:
> Where might this mrtg config file be???
Before everybody else asks me, http://www.crynwr.com/mrtg/ . I don't
have an index file, so you can see everything. qmail-mrtg and
qmail-mrtg1 are the scripts mentioned in mrtg.cfg. The two html files
are the mrtg displays.
--
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 11:22:56AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote:
> >We also saw a lot of our performance problems disappear when we moved =
> >from syslog to cyclog
>
> What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
> come up with a good way t
John R. Levine writes:
> >We also saw a lot of our performance problems disappear when we moved =
> >from syslog to cyclog
>
> What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
> come up with a good way to do that with cyclog.
You could probab
>What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
>come up with a good way to do that with cyclog.
We parse the logs into a database, and then use the database to pull out any in
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John R. Levine)
> Date: 28 Jul 1999 11:22:56 -0400
>
> >We also saw a lot of our performance problems disappear when we moved =
> >from syslog to cyclog
>
> What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
> come
>We also saw a lot of our performance problems disappear when we moved =
>from syslog to cyclog
What do you do about daily or weekly log summaries? I still haven't
come up with a good way to do that with cyclog.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>This command for qmail-send
>supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/qmail/rc | setuser qmaill cyclog
>/var/log/qmail &
That's unmodifed from my script, so it should work if the directories
/var/supervise/qmail/send and /var/log/qmai
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:35:10PM -0400, Tim Hunter wrote:
> I am having problems using tcpserver to log messages
>
> I use this command to start my pop server
> supervise /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d tcpserver -v 0 pop-3 /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
> | setuser qmaill cyclog /var/
I am having problems using tcpserver to log messages
I use this command to start my pop server
supervise /var/supervise/qmail/pop3d tcpserver -v 0 pop-3 /usr/sbin/in.pop3d
| setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail/pop3d/ &
This command for qmail-send
supervise /var/supervise/qmail/send /var/q
Two things
1 - add -v option to tcpserver
2 - qmail-smtp doesn't log anything :) There are some patches on
www.qmail.org
to log additional info
Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> I've been able to get cyclog to work fine with qmail-start but I'm trying to
> get it to w
: Two things
:
: 1 - add -v option to tcpserver
: 2 - qmail-smtp doesn't log anything :) There are some patches on
: www.qmail.org
: to log additional info
Hmm, okay. I'm basically just trying to get a normal log of what kind of stuff
is coming in on tcpserver and what's being bounced, etc.
: > /usr/qmail/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 65001 -g 65000 0 smtp \
: > /usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /usr/qmail/bin/accustamp | \
: > /usr/qmail/bin/setuser root /usr/qmail/bin/cyclog -s1000 -n5 \
: > /usr/qmail/log/smtp &
: >
: &g
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:15:59PM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> I've been able to get cyclog to work fine with qmail-start but I'm trying to
> get it to work with tcpserver. I'm presently using this line:
>
> /usr/qmail/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smt
I've been able to get cyclog to work fine with qmail-start but I'm trying to
get it to work with tcpserver. I'm presently using this line:
/usr/qmail/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 65001 -g 65000 0 smtp \
/usr/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /usr/qmail/bin/a
Fred Lindberg wrote:
>
> I use this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail:
>
> supervise /var/run/qmail qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/bin/accustamp | \
> /usr/bin/setuser qmaill \
> /usr/bin/cyclog -n4 -s250 /var/log/qmail /var/qmail/bin/analog
SNIP
Thanks for the ideas! T
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:24:06 +0300, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>> cyclog rotates itself when a log reaches a certain size, which is fine, but
>> what's the right way to collect them and do a daily scan and crunch?
I use this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail:
supervise /var/run/qmail qmai
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 03:01:54PM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
> I have squinted at the cyclog and other man pages in daemontools, but I
> don't get the big picture.
>
> I currently use syslog, and rotate the log files once a day, scanning the
> logs, making summaries,
John R Levine writes:
> I have squinted at the cyclog and other man pages in daemontools, but I
> don't get the big picture.
>
> I currently use syslog, and rotate the log files once a day, scanning the
> logs, making summaries, and keeping a week's worth
I have squinted at the cyclog and other man pages in daemontools, but I
don't get the big picture.
I currently use syslog, and rotate the log files once a day, scanning the
logs, making summaries, and keeping a week's worth of compressed daily logs.
cyclog rotates itself when a log
I decided to run a supervised copy of qmail. As I found in the list archiv,
I was not the first one who has trouble with the pipe in the /var/qmail/rc
file:
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox accustamp | setuser qmaill cyclog /var/log/qmail
But I also
etc).
>
> One of the changes is that I was using syslog and it uses cyclog.
>
> Every night at midnight, I have a cronjob that rotates the syslog and sends
> email with a qmail-analog report in it. Since cyclog may cycle it's logs at
> any time, it isn't clear to me how t
In recent times, I've been installing qmail off of the SRPM from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Previously, I built it myself. This SRPM uses a
variety of packages that I haven't fully mastered yet (such as daemontools,
etc).
One of the changes is that I was using syslog and it uses cyclog.
E
Dave Sill wrote (on Apr 12, 1999):
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >What are the advantages/disadvantages of cyclog over syslog?
[...]
> Disadvantages: only logs messages sent to stdout, only logs messages
> from local system, doesn't chunk logs by day/week/etc-
Keith Burdis wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> On Mon 1999-04-12 (15:34), Stefan Paletta wrote:
> > You can use ucspi-tcp to reliably send log messages from one program's
> > stdout to a cyclog on another host.
>
> Please could you show an example of how you'd do this.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefan
On Mon 1999-04-12 (15:34), Stefan Paletta wrote:
> Dave Sill wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> > Disadvantages: only logs messages sent to stdout, only logs messages
> > from local system
>
> You can use ucspi-tcp to reliably send log messages from one program's
> stdou
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:05:35 -0400 (EDT), Dave Sill wrote:
>dates/times aren't human-readable without "tailocal", throws away
>oldest logs.
Bruce Guenter has a patch to execute a program on the oldest log before
throwing it away. I use cyclog and this feature, where the l
Dave Sill wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> Disadvantages: only logs messages sent to stdout, only logs messages
> from local system
You can use ucspi-tcp to reliably send log messages from one program's
stdout to a cyclog on another host.
Stefan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>What are the advantages/disadvantages of cyclog over syslog?
Advantages: performance, automatic rotation, predetermined maximum
size, ability to filter for unusual messages using "usually", no
remote access and associated security problems, timestamps are
+ Dongping Deng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I installed daemontools and started to use cyclog, but such messages
| started to pop up every few seconds.
|
| cyclog: warning: unable to create @0922434195, pausing: access
| denied
| cyclog: warning: unable to create @0922434255, pausing:
I installed daemontools and started to use cyclog, but such messages
started to pop up every few seconds.
cyclog: warning: unable to create @0922434195, pausing: access
denied
cyclog: warning: unable to create @0922434255, pausing: access
denied
cyclog: warning: unable to create
has anyone modified cyclog to make the file names it generates a little more
readable/workable? It would be nice if they were rotated in the same way that
syslog files were.. i.e. mail.log, mail.log.0, mail.log.1, etc..
Has anyone done this? I know very little C, so if someone could help me
Hi there,
We try to log smtpd and pop3d transaction using cyclog. For some reason,
it refuses sending the stderr to cyclog. I do put 2>&1 to my script.
In /etc/init.d/qmail-smtpd, it looks like:
supervise /var/lock/qmail-smtpd tcpserver -v -c60 -u51 -g50 -b20 0
smtp \
/va
amp;'
|
| And I have the following on /var/qmail/rc :
|
| exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
| qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| | /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog -s 1000 -n 10 \
| /var/log/qmail
Well I think this is fundamentally flaw
c env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ /usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill /usr/local/bin/cyclog -s 1000 -n 10 \
/var/log/qmail
When I give svc -h /var/run/qmail, I got the famous message "alert: cannot
start: qmail-send is alread
netd) and want to
> replace it with tcpserver.
>
> I've also noticed that the single process on the machine that is a hog is
> the syslog process, so i also want to replace this with cyclog.
>
> What my question is:
>
> I'm running qmail1.03 with Bruce Guenters
ess on the machine that is a hog is
the syslog process, so i also want to replace this with cyclog.
What my question is:
I'm running qmail1.03 with Bruce Guenters vmailmgrd package (a checkpw
replacement) -- what kind of command lines is everyone else running?
I need one for qmail and for qmail-
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