Excellent work! I've got some really big syslog's off our mail server and tying to figure out how to process them. The mailgraph -c -l /var/log/syslog.0 ran but couldn't find output(the .rrd?)updatedb!...
I'm really excited about starting mailgraph up! Looks really nice! -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 5:55 AM To: Stanley Hopcroft Cc: [email protected] Subject: [rrd-users] Re: Data acquisition for an RRD to store mail flow rates. Stanley, you might want to look at david schweikerts mailgraph for inspiration http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/ tobi > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > Please would you suggest methods of capturing mail flow rate data for > storage in an RRD ? > > The only thing that comes to mind is periodically reading the tail of > the mail server log (each interval read from the last end of file to the > current, and counting each record of a mail delivery). > > Is this what others do ? > > Eximstate is not an option since the problem MTAs are sendmail. > > I am interested in doing this to employ the aberrant failure detection > (HW forecast) RRAs. > > Yours sincerely. > > > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
