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diff --git a/contrib/mmdsr.readme b/contrib/mmdsr.readme index fa074704..d7aa2543 100644 --- a/contrib/mmdsr.readme +++ b/contrib/mmdsr.readme @@ -1,33 +1,35 @@ Daily Status Report script... -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. - -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. - -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. +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. + +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. + +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. |