On 9/11/09 5:57 PM, ghe wrote:
On Sep 11, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Also since I didn't find it, I just re-postmapped 'em all.
Postfix includes the name of the file that is out-of-date:
warning: database /etc/postfix/access.db is older than source
file /etc/postfix/access
This is logged when the output file has not been updated withing 100s
after the input file was modified.
Ah!! Logwatch was giving me the wrong string to grep for. "older than
source" is all over the logs, all complaining about my sender checks.
Thanks, Wietse.
Most log messages in postfix-logwatch are either canonicalized or
summarized. In this case, the message summary change was an attempt at
being a little more clear, (but perhaps its not). The canonicalization
(and uppercasing of the first word) makes strict grep'ing fail. Eg.,
the grep:
grep 'database is older than source file'
would fail. So you'd have to know a-priori which sub-string to grep for
anyway. I thought the summary message:
Database file needs update
was clearer than the canonicalized:
Database is older than source file
esp. in context of the verbose output. Its best to use the summary
output as a hint to look at more detailed output, and of course the logs.
Finally, as an FYI, you can look at the postfix-logwatch source to see
the section and pattern matches :
add_section ($S, 'databasegeneration', 1, 'd', '*Warning:
Database file needs update');
leads to :
} elsif ($warning =~ /^database (?:[^ ]*) is older than source file
([\w\/]+)$/o) {
#TD warning: database /etc/postfix/client_checks.db is older than
source file /etc/postfix/client_checks
$Totals{'databasegeneration'}++; return unless
($Collecting{'databasegeneration'});
$Counts{'databasegeneration'}{$1}++;
--
Mike
