I am paranoid that my mail server will stop working, so I whipped up this little swatch script to notify me when mimedefang encounters an error, which might indicate it has stopped working. I could have it do a restart or similar, but for now I just have it email me. Someone posted c-code to do similar,but I'm a big fan of only using perl for my system administration code. Minor improvements, it could only notify you once or a maximum number of times when an error occurs, instead of everytime.
Perhaps you could add this to the contrib directory? ------------------------- watchfor /Milter \(mimedefang\): local socket name \/var\/spool\/MIMEDefang\/mimedefang.sock unsafe/ mail insert_email_address,subject=swatch detected mimedefang error on processing echo red watchfor / Milter \(mimedefang\): to error state/ echo red watchfor /Milter \(mimedefang\): write\(D\) returned \-1, expected 5: Broken pipe/ mail insert_email_address,subject=swatch detected mimedefang error on processing echo green ---------------------------- -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
