Re: procmail log tailing (was Re: mutt and noatime partitions)
Cameron, et al -- ...and then Cameron Simpson said... % % On 17:15 02 Mar 2002, christophe barbé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % | It seems there is no option to avoid the use of the access time. ... % % Instead, I have my procmail recipe write a line to a log file when % interesting email arrives (i.e. only when one of a few recipes fires). % And I have a small window which tails that logfile. If I were in text mode I % could just tail that log in the background. I like this, and I've been looking for something this simple. Can you post or send your config for me to blatantly copy? :-) TIA HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg25045/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: procmail log tailing (was Re: mutt and noatime partitions)
David,
% Instead, I have my procmail recipe write a line to a log file when
% interesting email arrives (i.e. only when one of a few recipes fires).
% And I have a small window which tails that logfile. If I were in text mode I
% could just tail that log in the background.
I like this, and I've been looking for something this simple. Can you
post or send your config for me to blatantly copy? :-)
I don't actually use this anymore (since someone mentioned
gkrellm-mailcheck), but this is the sort of thing I tried:
# Here's how we send the subject to the logfile
:0
* Subject: test
{
:0 c: logger.lock
| formail -X Subject: | logger -p kern.warn
:0:
/var/mail/cswingle
}
kern.warn probably isn't exactly the right facility and level to
use, but I wanted to make sure it showed up on my syslog server.
Maybe mail.info, or something.
Test first, I'm far from a procmail wizard.
Chris
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Re: procmail log tailing (was Re: mutt and noatime partitions)
I like this, and I've been looking for something this simple Can you post or send your config for me to blatantly copy? :-) I use a modified version of a program called root-tail (wwwvarcx/root-tail) to tail -f my procmail log, /var/log/secure, and a few other files Each one is displayed in a different color, directly onto my root window (in other words, my desktop wallpaper) If you're interested, reply directly to me and i'll send you my modifications -- Mike Schiraldi VeriSign Applied Research msg25053/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: procmail log tailing (was Re: mutt and noatime partitions)
On 15:37 05 Mar 2002, David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| % On 17:15 02 Mar 2002, christophe barb? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| % | It seems there is no option to avoid the use of the access time.
| ...
| % Instead, I have my procmail recipe write a line to a log file when
| % interesting email arrives (i.e. only when one of a few recipes fires).
| % And I have a small window which tails that logfile. If I were in text mode I
| % could just tail that log in the background.
|
| I like this, and I've been looking for something this simple. Can you
| post or send your config for me to blatantly copy? :-)
Sure. Here's an example recipe:
: 0
* ^(to|cc|bcc):.*cs@zip\.com\.au
{
: 0hc
| mhdrs | { while read hdr body; do eval HDR_$hdr=\$body; done; alert -c
yellow `timecode` +attn $HDR_FROM; $HDR_SUBJECT; }
:0 whf
| formail -A X-Label: Personal
: 0w
| /usr/lib/nmh/rcvstore +attn -unseen
}
This catches email to me.
The internal part does 3 things: writes the logfile line, tags the message
with an X-Label header, and drops in into my Attention mailbox with MH.
You want the first bit.
Mhdrs is this script:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/mhdrs
which just recites the message headers in a shell-friendly form. For
example, this message gets:
FROM Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BCC
SUBJECT Re: procmail log tailing (was Re: mutt and noatime partitions)
REPLY_TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IN_REPLY_TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the while loop just picks these up and sets $HDR_FROM, $HDR_TO etc
to match. After the while loop you do whatever you like. Which could
be as simple as:
echo $HDR_FROM; $HDR_SUBJECT your-log-filename-here
As you can see I pass it to yyet another script, but it's core purpose
it to write it to my alert logfile, in yellow.
Then my FVWM setup have a 3 line xterm running what is essentially
tail -f of this log file.
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