On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:03:00PM +0300, Robert A Nesius wrote: > Do you know why spamd doesn't have it's own metric-tracking > code built in? It seems like such an obvious thing to have > spamd do on it's own so you could just ask it for reports.
Beats me... spamd logs to syslog with all the necissary info so that's the key, I guess. Just gather the data from the logs and *bang*. Maybe the devel-team doesn't want SA to cover that area but just focus on whacking spam. I'm happy someone else made spamstats. However now that I've been switching from spamd/spamc to MIMEDefang + SA in sendmail environments I noticed there doesn't seem to be anything similar to spamstats so I had to hack something together on my own with perl to get stats. Ugly... There's graphdefang but I like the info spamstats gives. > Oh... spamd logging. Currently mine is not logging. Does > logging through 'syslog' generate the appropriate log? I didn't > see much in the way of documentation on this. Yea, you should log through syslog. With more or less defaults the spamd logs should end up in maillog or where ever mail.info things go. And spamstats will require this as well, no stats without logs. The logging "should just work". Only "gotcha" I've noticed is in Solaris when Sys::Syslog can't talk to /dev/log directly and wants to use udp -- you need to have syslog running without -t flag. Depends on perl version and the broken ones can be patched to talk to /dev/log, though. At least 5.8.0 seems to be affected. But in Linux I don't know, I actually haven't run spamd in Linux but call SpamAssassin from MIMEDefang and it uses Unix::Syslog which (afair) wraps around the OS' syslog.h to log, and works nicely. -- (Mr.) Hannu Liljemark | Appelsiini Finland Oy | http://appelsiini.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
