Re: reading qmail Log File

[Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 04 Apr 2005 15:38, Jeremy Hinton wrote:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> > + Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > | > For that reason, I interpose an extra process between the
> > | > tcp socket and qmail-smtp, which logs certain responses from
> > | > qmail-smtp:
> > | >
> > | >   smtpd: pid 16927 250_ok_1112441572_qp_16929/
> > |
> > | hmmm nice, I don't suppose you'd have a patch handy for that?
> >
> > Not in the form of a patch, but I'll give you a do-it-yourself kit.
>
> Why not just use recordio to do the same? i log the qmail-queue pid,
> message envelopes, and other useful data this way with the following run
> scripts:

I do use recordio from time to time, but I don't like using it on busy 
servers, except for short periods of time.

Harald's loggit program compiled fine, but does not like my heavily patched 
qmail-smtpd, it stumbles on CHKUSER and tls and blocks the connection. 
Probably works ok on vanilla qmail though, and it's an interesting bit of 
code.

I suppose the answer is to pick up 'qp' in qmail-smtpd and make it spit it out 
to the log there, but to be honest it's a bit beyond my C coding ability ATM.

But thanks all the same!

>
> /service/qmail-smtpd/run:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ulimit -d 10000
>
> export QMAILQUEUE='/usr/local/bin/qmail-filter-chain'
> export HOST='pop.visi.net'
> CONLIMIT=100
>
> exec tcpserver                          \
>      -c ${CONLIMIT}                      \
>      -u201 -g200 -v -p -R -t 5           \
>      -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtp.cdb         \
>      0 smtp                              \
>      /usr/bin/recordio                   \
>      /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd          \
>      smtp.visi.net                       \
>      /usr/local/bin/checkpw-pop3         \
>      /bin/true                           \
>      2>&1
>
>
>
> /service/qmail-smtpd/log/run:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Standard demontools logger
> # ===
>
> PROG=qmail-smtpd
>
> exec \
>    setuidgid qmaill \
>      multilog \
>        t s10485760               \
>          '-* * > *'              \
>          '-* * < *'              \
>          '+* * > 5*'             \
>          '+* * > 4*'             \
>          '+* * > 250 ok * qp *'  \
>          '+* * < RCPT *'         \
>          '+* * < RSET *'         \
>          '+* * < MAIL *'         \
>          '+* * < AUTH *'         \
>          /var/multilog/${PROG}
>
> - jeremy

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