Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-27 Thread Quinn Comendant
Two more tools: - A logwatch plugin that generates qmail log summaries. The default qmail logwatch plugin requires syslog-style logging. This one is based on LWQ-style multilog files. http://midwales.com/downloads/pub/lin/logwatch/logwatch-qmail-1.1.0.tar.gz - A tool to connect qmail logs to

Re[2]: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-20 Thread Alexey Loukianov
Greetings, Jake. On 20 ??? 2006 ?., 0:24:54 you wrote: I have to agree. The logging in QMail plain sucks. It's almost made me switch to Postfix a few times. Unfortunately, I don't see any way of correlating the messages without modifying the patches, since there is no common

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Eric \Shubes\
Quinn Comendant wrote: I wrote a couple weeks ago about how best to trace the path of an email (an its errors) through the different multilog files. It clearly isn't an easy task. Whenever a customer asks me I lost an email I usually spend 10-30 minutes greping, sorting, and

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Will McDonald
Coming to this mid-thread as I've only just subscribed since starting to tinker with Qmailtoaster. Has Splunk been mentioned as a possibility? http://www.splunk.com/ http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuddletech.com%2Fblog%2F+splunkmeta= This isn't something I've

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Quinn Comendant
Splunk looks *awesome*! Will: when/if you get this running please let us/me know how well it works with qmail, et al. All: I'll continue to research this, but for the next month or so Im pretty booked with projects so I can't give no love here. Quinn On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:46:18 +,

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:49:34 -0800, Quinn Comendant wrote: Are there any others? Just to keep this info in the same thread, here is one that I had previously mentioned... John M. Simpson wrote: This is a script that i run as a cron job every hour. it goes through /service/*/log/main and

RE: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Joseph Lundgren
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier Coming to this mid-thread as I've only just subscribed since starting to tinker with Qmailtoaster. Has Splunk been mentioned as a possibility? http://www.splunk.com/ http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Jake Vickers
Joseph Lundgren wrote: All, Splunk is Very Neat. But, it's no good at deciphering qmail's logs (or at least, I never had any luck writing a custom search to provide the information that I need to see.) Also, for the quantity of email logs that I generate per day (500MB), Splunk becomes

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:24:54 -0500, Jake Vickers wrote: I have to agree. The logging in QMail plain sucks. It's almost made me switch to Postfix a few times. Unfortunately, I don't see any way of correlating the messages without modifying the patches, since there is no common

RE: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-19 Thread Quinn Comendant
Qmail-track is pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks Joseph! With that and a tool for statistical summaries I'd say we'd have our log bases covered. Quinn On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:03:50 -0800, Joseph Lundgren wrote: The best tool that I found to get proper information about the

[qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-18 Thread Quinn Comendant
I wrote a couple weeks ago about how best to trace the path of an email (an its errors) through the different multilog files. It clearly isn't an easy task. Whenever a customer asks me I lost an email I usually spend 10-30 minutes greping, sorting, and cross-referencing log entries before I can

Re: [qmailtoaster] We need something to make searching qmail logs easier

2006-12-18 Thread Alexey Loukianov
Greetings, Quinn. On 19 декабря 2006 г., 5:49:34 you wrote: - Qmailanalog has been mentioned on this before as being both very useful but not successfully installed on the toaster. Anybody out there using it with the toaster? http://cr.yp.to/qmailanalog.html This is an original DJB's tool