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+Daily Status Report script...
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+The mmdsr script was created by Brad Knowles to produce a daily status report for mailman. It was initially posted at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123383&group_id=103&atid=300103> which see for possible patches and other enhancements.
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+It is intended that there will be a 'cleaner', more complete readme file in the future. In the interim, here are Brad's original comments.
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+I quickly whacked together a Daily Status Report script for
+Mailman (using Bourne shell, not Python ;), and thought that other
+folks might be interested in seeing it.
+
+The basic concept is a program that gets fired off at 23:59 every
+night, and goes through a variety of log files looking for entries
+specific to that date, and indicating problems or certain types of
+activity that might be of interest to someone trying to administer
+the server. It also does an "ls -la" of /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/*,
+so that you can see what is in the queue at the time of the running
+of the script.
+
+My concept was that this daily report would get e-mailed to the
+admin, or posted to a "reports" mailing list, where they could be
+archived and kept for future reference.
+
+The script does not (yet) do any statistics calculations, although it
+should be relatively easy to hack together some basic stats using
+awk, sort, etc....
+
+Anyway, I thought I'd share it and let folks take a look at it, and if
+anyone has any recommended improvements, we can incorporate
+those and share them back out with everyone.
+
+The code is written under a BSD-style license, so if you don't want
+to contribute any changes back to me, that's okay. Of course, I
+would prefer that you did, but I leave the choice up to you.