thanx much to everyone, for their responses on this
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Randall Gellens wrote:
> At 9:14 AM -0400 10/2/00, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been starting to write a log parser for the popper log for our tech
> > support people. Putting certain things from the log into HTML tables per
> > day, etc.. so far i'm picking out bad logins, good logins (but only after
> > a bad login), pop timeouts, pop hangups, and pop lock busies.
> > Anyway, i was pulling out the good logins by the lines containing "Stats:"
> > but i dont know if this is correct? Does this take place at login or after
> > all interaction is done with the user? If it's at login i guess it's stats
> > of msgs that WILL be deleted/WILL be kept, and if it's AFTER, it's msgs
> > that WERE deleted/WERE kept. It sounds more plausible that it would be
> > after interaction, but the timestamps just dont seem right..maybe i'm
> > reading it wrong.
>
> The 'stats' line is written at the end of the session. If you want
> to log th start of a session, use '--enable-log-login', which causes
> Qpopper to write a log entry when a user authenticates.
>
> > Lastly, any debug lines you think would be helpful to my people that
> > i should include in the logfile? I really dont want to enable ALL
> > debugging, because the logfile gets REALLY huge and 1/2 of the stuff i
> > dont need. So if i could just select a choice few entries, that would be
> > fine. i dont care if i have to change the specific DEBUG_LOG's to
> > pop_msg's
> > Definately lastly, what exactly does the pop timeout and pop hangup
> > messages represent. I was hoping when the user cancelled the message
> > download, that's when the hangup messages came up
>
> Timeout means no input was received from the client within the
> timeout period, while hangup means the connection closed without the
> client sending QUIT, which could mean the user cancelled the
> download, or the connection was dropped, or the client machine
> crashed, or there was a network problem somewhere, or....
>
> >
> > I'm running 3.0.1 on linux with:
> > --enable-servermode --enable-specialauth --enable-hash-spool=2 --ena
> > ble-temp-drop-dir=/usr/tmp/.pop
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> > -Tony
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> > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
> >
> > "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
> > http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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