On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Gre7g Luterman wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:31:14 -0500 (EST), Chris Hardie > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greetings. I'm interested in being able to view some statistics about > > TMDA and the magic it works in a given time period. Wanted to see what > > you folks think about the idea. > > If you're lazy, like me, you might consider doing this with simple > shell commands. Most of this is easily done. > > <snip> > > It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to set up a cron job that dumps > this in a file every day. If you don't care about pretty, then it's > pretty easy. <winks>
I'm fully aware that one can get the information using existing Unix reporting tools, I think we're agreeing that it would be a useful tool to have. I'm proposing the creation of a user-friendly command line tool that would allow at least a minimal amount of user interaction. This would require more than a series of greps and wcs (i.e what if I have multiple whitelists, what if I want to know the stats for Monday only, etc.). The related problem space that presented itself was getting data about TMDA's behavior into a data structure that could be manipulated for other purposes. Right now it's dumped out to a log, and so anyone who wants to work with this data is constrained by the format of the log file (unless they muck with MessageLoggger.py). I'll admit that I may be the only one interested in pursuing this, but I thought it worth piping up to see who else might be out there. > > Even cooler, but not as practical, would be stuff like: > > > > -Min/Avg/Max times between confirm requests and confirmations received > > -Number of distinct senders / subject lines > > -Number of "hits" on each whitelist / blacklist > > Bleah. I think you'd want to write some Python code for that sort of > stuff. I'll avoid the potential holy war that my natural Perl[1]-oriented response might bring about. There's enough petty conflict happening in the world. :) Chris [1] Practical Extraction and Report Language _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
