On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> /dev/rob0 put forth on 11/10/2009 7:58 PM:
>> On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:21:04 Chris Arnold wrote:
>>> OK, nothing stands out from pflogsumm.pl:
>>
>> Nothing?
>>
>>> Per-Day Traffic Summary
>>>     date          received  delivered   deferred    bounced     rejected
>>>     --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>     Nov  9 2009         1          3          1
>>>     Nov 10 2009     15328      15475        390        127       1115
>>
>> Wouldn't you say that's a bit of an increase from the previous day?
>> Perhaps significant?
>
> Rob, I think that's likely the result of log rotation timing.  If you've
> not seen this before, or often, you probably haven't been using
> pflogsumm 'enough'. ;)
>
> Doing something like this usually prevents the anomaly above:
> pflogsumm.pl /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.log.0 /var/log/mail.log.1
>

If spam from this server is the cause of trouble, it may have happened
some days ago.
The OP needs to look at a few days past.  Depending on log rotation,
this may involve several files, some of which may be gzipped.

> --
> Stan
>

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