Chris, Thanks for the suggestion about remote syslogging -- it has worked out great so far, taking a huge load off of our MIMEDefang server. The mail is logged remotely on a notsobusy Linux server and graphdefang runs well on that server hourly (still takes about 10-15 minutes to run graphdefang.pl due to our large mail volume), not affecting the mail processing services on the MIMEDefang server.
I would recommend this solution to anyone who has seen their mimedefang mail gateway take a hit when running graphdefang . - Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Myers Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] graphdefang on remote server ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steffen Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:52 AM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] graphdefang on remote server > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Chris Gauch wrote: > > > So, my question is, is there a way to have graphdefang process a maillog > > remotely so that my MIMEDefang server isn't brought to its knees even > > If you don't like to have syslog forward the messages to another server, > how about rsync'ing the log file from the mail relay to the log generator, > just before you call graphdefang? That would work, too. With rsync you take the CPU and I/O hit all at once rather than spreading it out across the hour with syslog, but that would still be a lot less load than graphdefang imposes. To deal with clock sync issues, I would definitely suggest pulling the logfile rather than pushing it. It wouldn't be a good thing to be slightly out of sync and copy the logfiles 27 seconds after graphdefang runs... :-) Chris Myers Networks By Design _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
