Logrotating with multilog

2001-08-14 Thread Martin Hasenbein
Hi, I'm using qmail with the daemontools and my logs are generated by multilog. I'm running qmail for example like this: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ multilog t s100 n100 /usr/local/server/qmail/main Is it possible to make multilog rotate

Re: Logrotating with multilog

2001-08-14 Thread Henning Brauer
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:42:19PM +0200, Martin Hasenbein wrote: Is it possible to make multilog rotate logfiles, lets say every night at 0?? multilog rotates by size, not time. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de

Re: Logrotating with multilog

2001-08-14 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
Martin Hasenbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to make multilog rotate logfiles, lets say every night at 0?? To add something to Hennings answer: from daemontools 0.75 on multilog does also switch the log when receiving a SIGALRM. Regards, Frank

Re: Logrotating with multilog

2001-08-14 Thread Bernhard Graf
Martin Hasenbein wrote I'm using qmail with the daemontools and my logs are generated by multilog. I'm running qmail for example like this: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH=/var/qmail/bin:$PATH \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ multilog t s100 n100 /usr/local/server/qmail/main Is it possible

Re: Logrotating with multilog

2001-08-14 Thread Adrian Ho
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:16:12PM +0200, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote: To add something to Hennings answer: from daemontools 0.75 on multilog does also switch the log when receiving a SIGALRM. And to add to Frank's 8-): There's a patch for daemontools 0.75 in that mailing list's archive http

isolog rotation with multilog

2001-08-06 Thread Olivier Dupuis
-Message d'origine- De : Olivier Dupuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoye : lundi 6 aout 2001 19:13 A : Olivier Dupuis Objet : isolog rotation with multilog Hi, I am testing log rotation with isolog on multilog. I can't understand why after sending a ALRM signal to the multilog

multilog problem

2001-07-02 Thread Lorac Thelmwood
so here is my problem... I did find some mention of this problem in the archives, but no solution to this problem. I installed qmail as per http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html (including pop3) now what i see is multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure I

Re: multilog problem

2001-07-02 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
is multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: temporary failure did you chown /var/log/qmail to qmaill.qmail ? -- rjbs PGP signature

Re: multilog problem

2001-07-02 Thread Lorac Thelmwood
I just did that, and it made no difference. lorac did you chown /var/log/qmail to qmaill.qmail ? -- rjbs ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca

RE: multilog problem

2001-07-02 Thread Lorac Thelmwood
have to restart qmail to make it take effect -Original Message- From: Lorac Thelmwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multilog problem I just did that, and it made no difference. lorac did you chown /var

multilog logs rblsmtpd into /var/log/qmail/smtpd instead of smtp traffic

2001-06-15 Thread dan . kelley
/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 21 - /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run: - #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd

Re: multilog logs rblsmtpd into /var/log/qmail/smtpd instead of smtp traffic

2001-06-15 Thread Dave Sill
to get multilog to grab both smtp and rbl generated info? qmail-smtpd doesn't do any logging, but if you add -v to tcpserver, it'll log connections. -Dave

Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Alex Khanin
I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50 That is ignored. If I put it this way: #!/bin/sh

Re: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Charles Cazabon
Alex Khanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup/log/qmail ssize 50 nnum 50

RE: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Boyiazis
-Original Message- From: Alex Khanin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multilog log file size specification I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail

RE: Multilog log file size specification

2001-06-14 Thread Willy De la Court
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 20:22, Alex Khanin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I've read the manpage and it states you should use the ssize action, So I put this in my /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /backup

vmailmgr pop pop3d logging with multilog

2001-05-31 Thread Joe Janitor
I have qmail + vmailmgr set up and working, qmail pop accesses are being logged via daemontools and multilog and end up in /var/log/qmail/pop3d/current. i can get /etc/vmailmgr/checkvpw-postexec to write to a file (/tmp/vm), but I can't make its output show up in the pop3d logs via multilog

isoqlog and multilog not playing nice

2001-05-19 Thread Gary MacKay
/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t !isoqlogappend /var/log/qmail/send I can see the command running in ps auxw so I know the restart took affect. But nothing happens. The /var/log/qmail/isoqlog file is supposed to fill up (I think) with info. But after each nights cron job that rotates

Re: isoqlog and multilog not playing nice

2001-05-19 Thread Justin Heesemann
Hi... I had similar problems. In isoqlog it is mentioned to remove any s12345 stuff from /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run which looks like nonsense to me. in fact, multilog ALWAYS uses a s switch. only that it uses default values of about 100kbyte if you supply it with another size

Re: Make multilog rotate according to time?

2001-05-16 Thread Ralph Hackl
Now that was at http://www.superscript.com/patches/intro.html . A multilog Patch!!It works fine. You can give multilog a HUP i.a with a cron job. -rh -- -- Ralph Hackl | CANCOM Computersysteme GmbH

Re: Make multilog rotate according to time?

2001-05-16 Thread Ismail YENIGUL
hi for daily report you can use isoqlog log analyzer at http://www.enderunix.org/isoqlog byye On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ralph Hackl wrote: Now that was at http://www.superscript.com/patches/intro.html . A multilog Patch!!It works fine. You can give multilog a HUP i.a with a cron job. -rh

Make multilog rotate according to time?

2001-05-15 Thread Mike Jackson
Hi, I would like to use qmailanalog to make a daily report that will get mailed to the local administrative staff. I would like to have the reports include exactly 24 hours of activity. I thought that the easiest way to do this is to have multilog start a new log file at 0.00 every day

multilog: unable to lock directory

2001-04-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
One of the 6 supervised services on one of my gateways stopped responding (tinydns) yesterday afternoon. On the screen was "unable to lock directory /var/log/tinydns:", so I did an "svc -t /service/tinydns/log" and it worked fine. Since the line that generates that log output exits 111, how

RE: multilog and missing info

2001-03-19 Thread Chris Bolt
Sorry, http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto-old.html :-) -Original Message- From: Adam McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multilog and missing info On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:04:23AM -0700, Chris Bolt wrote

multilog and missing info

2001-03-18 Thread Chris Bolt
I was previously using splogger, and I just upgraded daemontools and set up svscan. Now logs are written with multilog, however I am not seeing as much information in my logs as with splogger. For example, a syslog logfile: Mar 18 12:55:34 illusion qmail: 984945334.323009 status: local 1/10

Re: multilog and missing info

2001-03-18 Thread Brett Randall
"Chris" == Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was previously using splogger, and I just upgraded daemontools and set up svscan. Now logs are written with multilog, however I am not seeing as much information in my logs as with splogger. For example, a syslog logfile: If

RE: multilog and missing info

2001-03-18 Thread Chris Bolt
: Brett Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:44 AM To: Chris Bolt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multilog and missing info "Chris" == Chris Bolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was previously using splogger, and I just upgraded daemontools and set up s

Re: multilog and missing info

2001-03-18 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 01:04:23AM -0700, Chris Bolt wrote: /var/log/qmail/current actually wasn't being filled because I had left splogger in my /var/qmail/rc... *oops* Thanks though, I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't gone over lifewithqmail.org (I had originally used

Re: multilog vs. splogger

2001-03-08 Thread Charles Cazabon
Hatem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am just wondering , if I am using splogger then the file to look at is :/var/log/syslog now if I am using multilog, then which file to look at? thanks. is it /var/log/mail.log? Read the documentation for multilog. Where the logs end up is completely dependent

multilog vs. splogger

2001-03-07 Thread Hatem
hi, I am just wondering , if I am using splogger then the file to look at is :/var/log/syslog now if I am using multilog, then which file to look at? thanks. is it /var/log/mail.log?

IsoQlog 1.5 released (multilog support has been added )

2001-03-06 Thread Ismail YENIGUL
mails and bytes, it keeps your main domain mail statistics for per day and per month . what is new : -All codes are rewritten , now isoqlog is more functional -multilog support has been given -User based incoming mail top scores has been added for every your domain that you define -User based

Re: Peculiar results with multilog

2001-03-05 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:59:39PM -0800, Dan Peterson wrote: John R Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: multilog t s400 ./logfiles '-*' '+*status:*' =logfiles/status The status lines logged from tcpserver look like this: @40003aa13cff07eb6d7c tcpserver: status: 2/40

Peculiar results with multilog

2001-03-03 Thread John R Levine
I just switched my qmail setup (one of them at least) to daemontools, qmail, two tcpservers for smtp, one for qmqp. It works great, execpt for one teensy thing. I have the same run command for all the log files: exec setuidgid qmaill \ multilog t s400 ./logfiles '-*' '+*status

Re: Peculiar results with multilog

2001-03-03 Thread Dan Peterson
John R Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same run command for all the log files: exec setuidgid qmaill \ multilog t s400 ./logfiles '-*' '+*status:*' =logfiles/status The status lines logged from tcpserver look like this: @40003aa13cff07eb6d7c tcpserver

Using Virtual Consoles with multilog

2001-02-28 Thread Roger Waterhouse
Hello I would like multilog to output to one of the virtual consoles under linux as well as the usual log file. I have looked through the archives, man pages, etc and the best I can come up with is to append the console device to the end of the command that invokes multilog ie: /usr/local/bin

Re: Using Virtual Consoles with multilog

2001-02-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:33:52PM -0700, Roger Waterhouse wrote: Hello I would like multilog to output to one of the virtual consoles under linux as well as the usual log file. I have looked through the archives, man pages, etc and the best I can come up with is to append the console

Re: Using Virtual Consoles with multilog

2001-02-28 Thread Charles Cazabon
Roger Waterhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the best I can come up with is to append the console device to the end of the command that invokes multilog ie: /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail /dev/tty9 where /dev/tty9 is virtual console 9. Does anyone know if this will work

qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Farber
+0/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 224981 even though I have log/run set up EXACTLY as in the supervise man page. Is this a supervise/multilog bug? anyone getting qmail to log deliveries to multilog using log/run ? Any advise would be helpful. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Chris Johnson
: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 224981 even though I have log/run set up EXACTLY as in the supervise man page. Is this a supervise/multilog bug? anyone getting qmail to log deliveries to multilog using log/run ? Did you set the sticky bit on your qmail service directory? Chris PGP signature

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Dave Sill
Paul Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even though I have log/run set up EXACTLY as in the supervise man page. Including the sticky bit on the on the qmail-send directory? Is this a supervise/multilog bug? No. anyone getting qmail to log deliveries to multilog using log/run ? Of course

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Farber
remote 0/20 end msg 224981 even though I have log/run set up EXACTLY as in the supervise man page. Is this a supervise/multilog bug? anyone getting qmail to log deliveries to multilog using log/run ? Did you set the sticky bit on your qmail service directory? Chris

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Chris Johnson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 service and under that drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root qmail4096 Feb 20 23:20 .. drwxr-sr-x 5 root root

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
even though I have log/run set up EXACTLY as in the supervise man page. Is this a supervise/multilog bug? anyone getting qmail to log deliveries to multilog using log/run ? Did you set the sticky bit on your qmail service directory? Chris

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Farber
DOH The manpage I have referneces .70 but nothing about a sticky bit oh well, live and learn.. and learn and learn and learn! Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Chris Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:13:37PM

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Farber
Tried that... but it will not fire off a copy of multilog: 3181 ?S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 3182 ?S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -qDHR -ladmin.f-tech.net -xt here is some file info: drwxr-sr-t 5 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:35 qmail-smtpd ./run

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
, 2001 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: Tried that... but it will not fire off a copy of multilog: 3181 ?S 0:00 supervise qmail-smtpd 3182 ?S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -qDHR -ladmin.f-tech.net -xt here is some file info: drwxr-sr-t 5 root

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Farber
Is there a specific kernel setting I need for supervise to log correctly??? I am on kernel 2.4.1 it's working fine on a RH 6.2 machine with 2.2.17 (using djbdns). The sticky bit seemed to have no effect.. and nothing is being logged error-wise. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL

Re: qmail-conf-054 / multilog

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Delany
For debugging purposes you might want to run svscan manually so the errors go to the screen/window you're on. On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:25:11PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote: Is there a specific kernel setting I need for supervise to log Not unless it's some wierd Unix. svscan writes errors to

multilog not getting messages?

2001-02-20 Thread Paul Farber
?S 0:00 supervise log 522 ?S 0:00 multilog t ./main 523 ?S 0:00 qmail-send 524 ?S 0:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/ 525 ?S 0:00 qmail-rspawn 526 ?S 0:00 qmail-clean 527 tty2 S 0:00 -bash 586 tty3 S 0

Re: Supervise without multilog.

2001-02-08 Thread Russell Nelson
Uwe Ohse writes: On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: I'd like to run supervise, but i would prefer the logging still take place in /var/log/maillog. you are mistaken. Nonsense. Of course he prefers that the logging still take place in /var/log/maillog.

Supervise without multilog.

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Brezny
I'd like to run supervise, but i would prefer the logging still take place in /var/log/maillog. I've read over the examples on lifewithqmail.org and http://matt.simerson.net/computing/qmail.toaster.shtml, but each use multilog. If anyone has a startup script, for qmail they would like to share

Re: Supervise without multilog.

2001-02-07 Thread Uwe Ohse
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Peter Brezny wrote: I'd like to run supervise, but i would prefer the logging still take place in /var/log/maillog. you are mistaken. For example, could i just leave my /var/qmail/rc file as is and omit the portions regarding multilog

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2001-01-16 Thread funky gao
Last week there was much discussion (some of it even on topic :) about making multilog rotate files on receipt of a signal. Here's my very simple patch to make multilog rotate its current file on receipt of SIGHUP. I have tested it under RedHat Linux 6.2 ONLY. However, as I have used Dan's

Multilog

2001-01-15 Thread Alex Kramarov
Hi. I have been happily running qmail now for some time, till now, then I have decided to try qmailmrtg (i also happily run mrtg for some time, to monitor my router). As I see, qmailmrtg requires that qmail logging will be done with multilog

Re: Multilog

2001-01-15 Thread tc lewis
for some time, to monitor my router). As I see, qmailmrtg requires that qmail logging will be done with multilog, (till now I use syslog, although it's supposed to be slow which is not my primary concern). I successfully ran multilog, but now I have a problem with it's timestamps - its some TAI

Life w/qmail: multilog qmail link

2000-12-20 Thread rdrake
Hi, I am trying to get a better understanding of the interoperation and I have tried the archives but can't find the answer I am looking for. I have qmail working by using Sill's LWQ, but I don't understand how the programs qmail-send and qmail-smtp are linked to the multilog program. I see

Re: Life w/qmail: multilog qmail link

2000-12-20 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 20 December 2000 at 16:29:07 GMT I have qmail working by using Sill's LWQ, but I don't understand how the programs qmail-send and qmail-smtp are linked to the multilog program. I see that they are both started independently

Re: Life w/qmail: multilog qmail link

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Sill
to the multilog program. I see that they are both started independently and that multilog accepts input in STDIN, but I don't see how qmail-* knows about multilog and knows to send to its STDIN. svscan is the missing link, as dd-b pointed out. Further adding to my confusion is the line in section 2.9 "

Multilog

2000-11-30 Thread Ari Arantes Filho
Hi, I'm using multilog, so it write the current log in the current file. I like to see to current file with tail -f current, but when it switch the log, the tail process stops, so I need to Control-C and tail -f current again. I've already tried tail -f --retry current and nothing... How can

Re: Multilog

2000-11-30 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2000 22:09 schrieb Ari Arantes Filho: Hi, I'm using multilog, so it write the current log in the current file. I like to see to current file with tail -f current, but when it switch the log, the tail process stops, so I need to Control-C and tail -f current

Re: Multilog

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Samuel
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: Hi, I'm using multilog, so it write the current log in the current file. I like to see to current file with tail -f current, but when it switch the log, the tail process stops, so I need to Control-C and tail -f current again. I've already

Re: Multilog

2000-11-30 Thread Ari Arantes Filho
hursday, November 30, 2000 5:31 PM Subject: Re: Multilog On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Ari Arantes Filho wrote: Hi, I'm using multilog, so it write the current log in the current file. I like to see to current file with tail -f current, but when it switch the log, the tail process stops, so

Svscan, Multilog and performance issue

2000-11-25 Thread dkwok
I have set up qmail using std instructions from life with qmail. In order to run svscan, it has to set up log directory and run multilog, some log program. However I notice that the hard disk and system is heavily loaded when multilog is turned on. Using my P133, the load is usually about

Multilog + Courier-imap Question

2000-11-18 Thread luby Gao
I have trouble combine these two. What I have done: 1. install daemontools, qmail and courier-imap successfully (all are newest version) 2. ./run file for courier-imap #!/bin/sh exec /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start 3. ./log/run file #!/bin/sh exec multilog t /var/log/courier-imapd 4

Re: multilog logging with vpopmail

2000-11-14 Thread Miguel Beccari
Hello. I've setup vpopmail for the first time last night and so far it works pretty good. I really don't like the fact that it logs to syslog and mail.log, however, and would prefer to use multilog with it under supervise which works for my qmail/qmail-smtp logging. I currently have a /var

qmail-mrtg-multilog [all 0's for me]

2000-10-17 Thread Alex Khanin
eliveries:/FONT/SMALL/TD TD ALIGN=rightSMALL0.0 Messages (0.0%) /SMALL/TD TD WIDTH=5/TD TD ALIGN=rightSMALLCurrent FONT COLOR="#00cc00"nbsp;Deliveries:/FONT/SMALL/TD TD ALIGN=rightSMALL0.0 Messages (0.0%) -- i have more than 50k messages going out daily, yet these are my reports..

Re: qmail-mrtg-multilog [all 0's for me]

2000-10-17 Thread Gary Richardson
Hey, I rewrote the qmail-mrtg-mess script the other day to handle it properly. Multilog uses tai64n instead of the timestamp ones. You need to compile the tai64n program as well. Have fun. On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:45:52 -0700, Alex Khanin said: [root@ns2 qm]# cat mrtg.cfg WorkDir: /usr

Re: emergency phone numbers (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-16 Thread Peter Samuel
On 15 Oct 2000, Chris K. Young wrote: Quoted from Peter Samuel: - 911 is the emergency number in North America, while it is 000 in Oz, 999 in NZ and UK etc. 999 in New Zealand? Not unless you use pulse dialling! :-) (Hint: most phones in New Zealand do tone dialling. And

emergency phone numbers (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-14 Thread Chris K. Young
Quoted from Peter Samuel: - 911 is the emergency number in North America, while it is 000 in Oz, 999 in NZ and UK etc. 999 in New Zealand? Not unless you use pulse dialling! :-) (Hint: most phones in New Zealand do tone dialling. And rotary phones in New Zealand are labelled

multilog (not working)

2000-10-13 Thread Alex Khanin
what am i doing wrong, multilog setup accord to Life with qmail webpage, is not working for me at all because their rc file with start command starts the old /var/qmail/rc which has splogger in it. also it starts scrolling non stop "tcpserver: cannot bind to port, already in use" cou

RE: multilog (not working)

2000-10-13 Thread Ihnen, David
in which multilog will be writing its logs read/write/executable for at least the qmaill user, otherwise it would not work, and the ps ax | grep multilog would show [multilog], indicating a failed 'zombie' sort of state. Check the permissions. And you may wish to send to us the line you

Re: multilog (not working)

2000-10-13 Thread Brett Randall
"Alex Khanin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what am i doing wrong, multilog setup accord to Life with qmail webpage, is not working for me at all because their rc file with start command starts the old /var/qmail/rc which has splogger in it. Where in the hell did you find that?! Sec

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Samuel
Last week there was much discussion (some of it even on topic :) about making multilog rotate files on receipt of a signal. Here's my very simple patch to make multilog rotate its current file on receipt of SIGHUP. I have tested it under RedHat Linux 6.2 ONLY. However, as I have used Dan's

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:03:04AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need to discourage multilog from automatically rolling by making the size setting absurdly large. Of course by doing this you remove a major advantage

Re: OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-06 Thread ROD
Well said! The qmail list isn't just a qmail hotline, it's an on-line community of people interested in qmail. If some of us want to talk about other topics now and then, we will. Feel free not to participate in such discussions. -Dave

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | "Brett Randall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm in need of some sanity. Does a patch exist, or does anyone want | to make one, to make multilog rotate logs based on time rather than | file size? | | There's a patch that causes multilog to close t

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread markd
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:06:51PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: using a service/log directory, just have a cron job kill the logger using svc -t. Supervise will start a new logger. Now, unless you do That's the thought I had too, but I'd want to check that supervise re-establishes the

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:06:51PM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | | using a service/log directory, just have a cron job kill the logger | using svc -t. Supervise will start a new logger. Now, unless you do | | That's the thought I had too, but I'd want to check

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread markd
to svscan, instead supervise (which has inherited the pipe) merely re-forks multilog. In any event, using Harald's strategy works just fine. svc -t the log service at midnight or whenever, and your job is done. If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need to discourage

RE: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread Brett Randall
If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need to discourage multilog from automatically rolling by making the size setting absurdly large. Of course by doing this you remove a major advantage of multilog, namely resource control. Resource control is a nice idea

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-06 Thread markd
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:03:04AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: If you insist on just one file per time period (day) then you'll need to discourage multilog from automatically rolling by making the size setting absurdly large. Of course by doing this you remove a major advantage

Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Brett Randall
G'day all I'm in need of some sanity. Does a patch exist, or does anyone want to make one, to make multilog rotate logs based on time rather than file size? I hope that I don't even have to start explaining why...The word 'standardisation' comes to mind. It's like comparing America to Australia

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Brett Randall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of some sanity. Does a patch exist, or does anyone want to make one, to make multilog rotate logs based on time rather than file size? There's a patch that causes multilog to close the current file when it receives a certain sig

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Charles Cazabon
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Brett Randall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of some sanity. Does a patch exist, or does anyone want to make one, to make multilog rotate logs based on time rather than file size? There's a patch that causes multilog to close the cu

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Samuel
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: It's like comparing America to Australia. Why do America have to make everything back-to-front for us? Such as? I'll bite that one. Here's my short list off the top of my head. In no particular order, it's also my opinionated view, it's not accurate,

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill
Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: It's like comparing America to Australia. Why do America have to make everything back-to-front for us? Such as? I'll bite that one. Here's my short list off the top of my head. Brett implied that the US was

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Justin Bell
On 05 20, Dave Sill wrote: # Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: # # It's like comparing America # to Australia. Why do America have to make everything back-to-front # for us? # # Such as? # # I'll bite that one. Here's my short list off the

OT Country differences (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Kris Kelley
mm/dd/yy is silly. dd/mm/yy is better, but I use -mm-dd, which is ISO-compatible and sorts nicely. mm/dd/yy is the natural derivative of how we usually say dates out loud, e.g., today is October 5th, 2000. Silly in a mathematical sense, perhaps, but it wasn't just yanked out of a hat.

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill
Justin Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone please tell me what Quarter of nine means, is it a quarter til, quarter past? It means 8:45. Oh, and US citizens are about as arrogant as the French As if *that's* possible. :-) -Dave

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Samuel
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: Justin Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone please tell me what Quarter of nine means, is it a quarter til, quarter past? It means 8:45. Oh, and US citizens are about as arrogant as the French As if *that's* possible. :-) Ah, something we

OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Martin Jespersen
What about taking this to a private forum? /Martin Peter Samuel wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: Justin Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone please tell me what Quarter of nine means, is it a quarter til, quarter past? It means 8:45. Oh, and US citizens are

Re: OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill
Martin Jespersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about taking this to a private forum? What about stirring the coals on a dead thread? What about using the "delete" button or "d" key? The qmail list isn't just a qmail hotline, it's an on-line community of people interested in qmail. If some of

Re: OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:09:58PM +0200, Martin Jespersen wrote: What about taking this to a private forum? What about getting a sense of humor? Jeez. --Adam -- Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a

Re: OT Country differences (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Kris Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 5 October 2000 at 11:58:57 -0500 And guess which countries will be important when the U.S., China, and Russia all go to war and wipe each other out? :) Um, ones on some other planet? -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Johan Almqvist
What about getting a sense of humor? Jeez. Where do the sell those? I'd like a bunch for some people around me... -Johan -- Johan Almqvist

Re: OT: who cares? (was: Volunteers for a multilog patch?)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:55:11PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote: What about getting a sense of humor? Jeez. Where do the sell those? I'd like a bunch for some people around me... You seem to be well-supplied yourself, tho :) Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me

OT: Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread richard
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote: Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - we're metric, the USA isn't (and Canada still hasn't quite made up its mind yet, even after almost 30 years. And if you think otherwsie, why do they sell coffee/meat by the pound here?) We do

Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

2000-10-05 Thread Russell Nelson
Peter Samuel writes: - Australian power points (or power outlets if you don't know what I'm talking about) all have switches on the outlet itself, not at the wall. Seems to be part of the UK mains wiring code, because it's in Britain and India as well. Even in the server

Gack, multilog defunct!

2000-09-29 Thread Ihnen, David
probably something simple, but what am I missing? rc file: --- #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Mailbox multilog t +* /var/log/qmail/qmaillog --- But when its running --- [root@CIO-QMAIL1 log]# ps ax | grep multi 14544 pts/1Z 0:00 [multil

Re: Gack, multilog defunct!

2000-09-29 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:44:41AM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote: [root@CIO-QMAIL1 log]# cat /var/log/qmail/qmaillog/current What are the permissions on /var/log/qmail/qmaillog/ ? --Adam -- Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html |

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