On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:12:18PM +0100, Johan Almqvist wrote:
[snip]
>
> [johan@alpha johan]$ grep 'msg 26226$' /var/log/maillog | tail
> Jan 7 20:30:39 alpha qmail: 978895839.019739 new msg 26226
> Jan 7 20:30:39 alpha qmail: 978895839.700460 end msg 26226
> Jan 7 20:34:37 alpha qmail: 978896077.553056 new msg 26226
> Jan 7 20:34:38 alpha qmail: 978896078.792728 end msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:11 alpha qmail: 978897791.864174 new msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:13 alpha qmail: 978897793.668139 end msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:17 alpha qmail: 978897797.017629 new msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:17 alpha qmail: 978897797.663223 end msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:47 alpha qmail: 978897827.825925 new msg 26226
> Jan 7 21:03:48 alpha qmail: 978897828.517892 end msg 26226
>
> This kinda worries me. Also makes log analysis a pest. What's wrong?
Log analysis is trivial. At 'new msg' create a table entry for the
message. At 'end msg' remove it. Reuse is no problem then.
Greetz, Peter
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