[rescue] Re: MRTG on List Postings?

[Robert Novak]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Paul Sladen wrote:

> This be interesting:  Bill, is there any way you set MRTG up to monitor the
> number of posting made, this would show just how much the list fluctuates.
> 
> Somebody might need to do some hacking to re-correct the scales as
> messages/second might not be the best scale to use.  (although, at busy
> times, maybe it would be, oh-so approiate ;-)

I use mrtg to monitor my postfix logs:

Title[mail]: Postfix stats
Target[mail]: `/bin/egrep -c "smtpd.*client=" /var/log/maillog; /bin/egrep -c "status=sent" /var/log/maillog; echo; echo`
MaxBytes[mail]: 1000
PageTop[mail]: <H1>Postfix stats</H1>
Options[mail]: growright,nopercent,noinfo,perhour
LegendI[mail]:  received: 
LegendO[mail]:  sent: 
Ylegend[mail]: Messages/Hour
Legend1[mail]: Received SMTP messages
Legend2[mail]: Transmitted SMTP messages
ShortLegend[mail]: msgs/hr

Should be fairly easy to tweak the grep to search for messages from each
list. 

--Rob

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