Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report
John Peacock <[email protected]>
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Robin Bowes wrote:
> I've patched messagewallstats so it reads from STDIN, and I'd like to send the output to qmail-inject. So, this will process the
> current log file and mail the output of the program to postmaster:
>
> !{ messagewallstats | qmail-inject postmaster }
>
> Am I correct in thinking that this will mean that the current log file will be not be written to an old file? How can I achieve
> this?
>
In that case, the current log file will be lost and the summary report will be
saved instead. That't why I do the complicated jig that you see in my run file.
I get the best of both worlds: a summary e-mailed to me and the complete log
file rolled as well.
John
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