Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

"Robin Bowes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Paul Jarc wrote:
>>> "!{ messagewallstats - 2>&1 1>&3 | qmail-inject postmaster } 3>&1"
...
> I do not want to have the program messagewallstats writing STDIN to
> STDERR, which is how John's solution works.

I don't think you've understood what the above does.  John says he
patched messagewallstats so that it reads its input from stdin, writes
its normal output to stdout, and writes a summary repotr to stderr.
The pipe and redirections above send messagewallstats' stdout to the
rotated log, and the stderr output to email.

> 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 }

That will do what you want it to do, assuming you quote it properly
for the shell.

> Am I correct in thinking that this will mean that the current log file
> will be not be written to an old file?

Yes.

> How can I achieve this?

Do you mean that you want the log to also be written to a rotated
file?  Or that you don't want it to be?


paul