Hi
You can use the s (size) and n (number of files) options as described
here:
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html
Besides, keep in mind how qmail works: every log message is printed to
stdout and piped to /service/WHATEVER/log/run's stdin, which usually
runs multilog. But you can replace it with any other program, as long
as it can read its input from stdin. You could easily code a script
that reads from stdin and inserts every log line on a DB, if that's
what you want.
For example, at a company I worked at our /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run
file looked like this:
#!/bin/sh
setuidgid qmaill \
envdir ./env \
sh -c '
exec /usr/bin/funnel \| \
"| /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 17" | \
multilog \
t \
${MAXFILESIZE+"s$MAXFILESIZE"} \
${MAXLOGFILES+"n$MAXLOGFILES"} \
${PROCESSOR+"!$PROCESSOR"} \
/var/qmail/log/qmail-smtpd
'
By using funnel we sent qmail's output to two logger programs:
multilog AND splogger. Multilog did local logs, and was easily setup
with the env/MAXFILESIZE, MAXLOGFILES and PROCESSOR files; and
splogger was configured to send a copy of every log line to a central
syslog server (our mail system was a cluster of seven).
Hope that helps
Regards
El 11/11/2008, a las 13:13, Jimmy Spam escribió:
How work and how I can configure multilog? I can't found many info
about it.
At this moment, my qmail-logs are rotated when it's weight is about
16775250bytes.
with this size i can store logs during 1 month aprox.
I'm thinking from many time ago about the posibility of store all
log (or a copied of them) of all components of my server (qmail-
smtpd, qmail-scanner, kav...) in a DB as mysql or postgre, for can
do queries easily from many manners. what do you think about this?
experience? advices?
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