On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:08:37PM +0200, tag wrote:
> Michael Maier wrote:
> >
> > tag wrote:
> >
> > > > Get qmail-analog mentioned on www.qmail.org
> > > > CU,
> > > > Michael!
> > >
> > > I have it - how is it going to help me ....???
> >
> > qmail-analog looks into your Log Files and provides Programs to show Statistics
> > of your Mail Server.
Nope. qmail-analog is for qmail-send logs, NOT tcpserver logs.
>
> I know that - what I do not know is what the :
>
> 973696610.343762 tcpserver: end 16494 status 256
>
> status 256 is from - and as you can see - it is from tcpserver .....
It's the exit status of process 16494 (presumably qmail-smtpd) as returned by the
wait() system call to tcpserver.
You'll need to read up on the wait() system call to understand why the value
is 256, but here's a snippet:
o If the child process terminated due to an _exit()
call, the low order 8 bits of status will be 0 and the
high order 8 bits will contain the low order 8 bits of
the argument that the child process passed to _exit();
see exit(2).
In the case of qmail-smtpd it can mean a variety of things, but generally
that it failed to get input from the socket when it expected. qmail-smtpd
only exits with a status of zero if it gets a QUIT.
Regards.
