Fred Lindberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 August 1999 at 13:31:15 -0500
 > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:39:13 -0500 (CDT), David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
 > 
 > >I'm confused by the "completed messages" statistic; is the low value
 > >because it only lists messages for which all deliveries have been
 > >completed (a guess based on the name)?  Why does anybody *care* about
 > >such a bizarrely constrained statistic?  Also, how do you weight bytes
 > >by success?
 > 
 > >From matchup you have to collect fd5 output (pending messages) and feed
 > them in again to the next run of matchup (on the next log file). see
 > man page.
 > 
 > You're stats are screwed up because you didn't and there are a lot of
 > deliveries for which the initial log entry is not available to matchup.

I'm collecting the fd5 output, and I'm feeding it back in, really I
am.  Only for the last 3 or 4 days at this point, I'm just getting the
log rollover code to do matchup right.  There shouldn't be any
significant number of deliveries outstanding over multiple days,
though.  
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