On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:03:39AM -0600, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > K. So a SPAMC PING is not really a PING.. It's an 'is there an > available free child check'. :)
Well, that's technically a ping. ;) (lots of winking going on today... ;) ) The "PING" command is a request to find out if spamd is available to process new messages. Technically, if all the children are busy, it's not available to process new messages. If you're looking to see if the process is running normally, and generally getting status on what is going on, it's not so trivial. With the new httpd-esque version that is in 3.1, there was talk that we provide some form of HTTP-esque server which simply spits out a parsable status ala httpd's server-status. That would let you know that things are running, and what the children states are, and anything else it feels like letting you know (# of messages processed, # of ham/spam, etc.) But this doesn't exist yet. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Tomorrow, you can be anywhere.
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