Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

On Thu, October 9, 2003 8:45 pm, "Paul Jarc" said:
> "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 understand this. I've patched messagewallstats differently so it doesn't
re-write stdin to stderr.

>> !{ messagewallstats | qmail-inject postmaster }
>
> That will do what you want it to do, assuming you quote it properly
> for the shell.

Meaning? This instead:

  "!{ messagewallstats | qmail-inject postmaster }"

> 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?

Option A: I'd like to keep the rotated log files, but have a summary
report emailed when they are rotated.

R.
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Robin Bowes