-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I like Kurt's approach, having a mailfilter/script-pipe which could remove dynamic variables like timestamps etc, and checksum it against against a "empty" template to see if its deletable.
This also verifies that mail-delivery is working, and machine is not dead. What also could be done is feed this information into a database, and show more information, ie: group portaudits on host like: www/apache2: (apache-2.0.55_3,apache-2.0.58) host1,host2,host3,host4,....,[see all] For portaudit I use a small ruby-program w/Net::SSH which runs portaudit-threads on machines, and groups it like somewhat like above on a web-interface. I intend to publish this when it's more "production ready", and not so specific for my use. Sorry for going off-topic. - -DB. Jo Rhett wrote: > On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Currently, if you get no message from that box, *something* is broken. > > I am not capable as a human being of noticing the lack of one message, > when without this patch I would get more than 2,000 each day. > >>> The more likely is that the OP starts deleting the messages unread >>> each day and thus never sees an actual failure report. >> >> Failure of imagination. > > No. Having done the work to verify that failures will be reported, I > configure the mail system to only send me mail on errors. Better design. > >> Perhaps a separate mailbox dedicated to this task, with a script >> (grep?) that parses the emails in that mailbox daily looking for >> expected messages, noting and deleting them, with unsent messages >> noted via an email and messages with unexpected content forwarded as >> well? > > This doesn't solve the "lack of a message" problem you mentioned above. > > It also requires a new system to be designed and configured, which could > have failures of its own. This is more abstraction and zero gain for > our environment. Any error should be read in our situation. A > non-error does not need to be read. > > In any case, the primary consideration with this patch is that it allows > either model to work. You can do it your way, and we can do it our way. > > --Jo Rhett > senior geek > > Silicon Valley Colocation > Support Phone: 408-400-0550 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeYyAUR3pKhqN0EoRAgbUAJ93Rq0FwoYRZfL2PnUGaDHwl8jbbgCfcc22 uUkANgaHrRsY9RQrDKLUbKk= =N5D4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
