On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > > > 3rd and 4th are *always* consecutive, whether you like it or not. > > > They are not always. It often happens that mailer logs some message > > that comes between these 3rd and 4th lines of spamd. > > Possibly. I don't know what you mean by the above;) For me, 3rd and 4th > are consecutive. There's no such thing as 3 1/2-th, 3 1/3-th etc.
Carefully avoiding the word consecutive here: Entries: 1: ... connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at ... 2: ... info: setuid to <username> succeeded 3: ... processing message <message-ID> ... 4: ... clean message (-2.2/5.0) for ... It is possible that other lines come inbetween the 3rd and 4th line of this spamd logentry. This makes it hard to correlate the message-ID and the number of spam points. Also consider the case where multiple spamd processes are run on one box, where multiple machines log to one syslog et cetera. Extreme case: - ... mailer log entry - ... mailer log entry - ... spamd log line 1 - ... spamd log line 2 - ... mailer log entry - ... other spamd log line 1 - ... other spamd log line 2 - ... other spamd log line 3 - ... mailer log entry - ... spamd log line 3 - ... other spamd log line 4 - ... mailer log entry - ... mailer log entry - ... mailer log entry - ... spamd log line 4 Using the PID may help but I still feel this leaves room for problems/errors. cheers, Alex ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
