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>
> 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.
thanks for the help -
Tonino
