From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1074 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roy Lanek" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: postfix and svlogd ? Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:26:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20060309192640.13179.qmail@mail.httpdnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141932480 12072 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2006 19:28:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-1310-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Thu Mar 09 20:27:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHQmW-0006ep-Kr for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:26:40 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 23192 invoked by uid 76); 9 Mar 2006 19:27:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 23186 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 19:27:01 -0000 Original-To: Gilles Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1074 Archived-At: > But am I seriously mistaken, or is it again some info > about how to run postfix supervised? And not about how > to grab postfix log messages so as to be able to use > "svlogd"? Well, the patch that I have indicated is the minimum of the minimum--and good so!--in fact it touches nearly zero of Postfix. (I would also NOT accept anything of the genre that would go more in depth AND DOESN'T come with Wietse Venema's green light.) Why does it need to be in svlogd per se?, use socklog--from the SAME runit series (or *family*) and uses the IDENTICAL style of config. files--I don't start any log service for Postfix. Example from my /var/log/socklog/mail/...: ... 2006-03-08_14:33:46.20193 mail.info: Mar 8 21:33:44 postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system (foreground) 2006-03-08_14:33:56.25236 mail.info: Mar 8 21:33:56 postfix/master[156]: daemon started -- version 2.3-20060202, configuration /etc/postfix ... 2006-03-08_22:32:05.18664 mail.info: Mar 9 05:32:05 postfix/pickup[1005]: xxxxx: uid=yyyy from= ... It doesn't solve 1-1 your requirements, but it's a solution ... provided your #1 goal is to use Postfix a' la runit (and mine it is). Cheers, /Roy Lanek -- ######################## ##### . slackware ###### air tenang menghanyutkan ##### +-----linux ###### still water runs deep ########################