RE: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

John Peacock <mailto:[email protected]> wrote on 09 October 2003 18:49:

> 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.

How about:

!{ tee /dev/stdin | messagewallstats | qmail-inject postmaster }

R.