Monique Y. Mudama wrote on Dec, 15:
[...]
> > Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4
> > logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single
> > user ?
[...]
> Not a daemon, but I have this in my crontab:
> @daily /usr/sbin/exim4 -bp | /usr/bin/mail -e -s "exim queue `date`" user
> You could do the same thing with greater frequency.
Excellent idea. It does the trick for me. I just elaborated slightly to send
mail only if there are messages on the queue.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion, Monique !
Paulo
#!/bin/sh
# Alerts if messages pending on exim queue
# $Id: eximchk,v 1.1 2005/12/19 19:06:47 paulo Exp $
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
user=root
nmsg=`exim4 -bpc`
if [ "$nmsg" != "0" ]
then
exim4 -bp | mail -s "$nmsg message(s) on exim queue `date`" $user
fi
exit 0
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