Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

On Thu, October 9, 2003 11:42 pm, "Paul Jarc" said:
> "Robin Bowes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, October 9, 2003 10:39 pm, "Paul Jarc" said:
>>> "!messagewallstats | qmail-inject postmaster && exec cat previous"
> ...
>> Why do you:
>>
>> a. use && (to only cat the previous file if the previous command
>> executed
>> successfully?)
>
> Yes.  If the !processor fails, multilog will try it again.  If we
> ignore errors from qmail-inject, the log will be rotated, but the
> email will be lost.
>
>> b. exec "cat previous" ?
>
> Just because there's no need to keep the shell around.

Paul,

Thanks for the clarification. This sort of thing is precisely why I
persisted with this issue. I now have:

1. messagewallstats patched to behave as I require
2. a relatively simple !processor run script which mails a summary report
yet keeps the original log files (the redirection that you proposed for
John's solution got a little hairy!)
3. a couple of pieces of knowledge around scripting.

Thanks again for your help.

R.
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Robin Bowes