On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Mike Cappella:
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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Postfix includes the name of the file that is out-of-date: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:
I think that it is a mistake to replace the specific
warning: database /etc/postfix/client_checks.db is older than
source file /etc/postfix/client_checks
By the generic
Database file needs update
Because it keeps the reader in the dark (given the generic text,
the user does not even know what to look for in the logfile).
I agree that many programs produce useless error messages. In the
case of Postfix, I actually put in effort to make messages useful.
So would I appreciate it if other people don't dumb down the
information that Postfix tries to give.
Or how about maybe a section of the (shorter, summarizing) message
from logwatch, enclosed in single quotes, that would find the mail log
messages?
--
Glenn English
g...@slsware.com
