From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I was curious why spamd log entries always had an extra blank line
> > after them.
> >
> > It looks like Sys::Syslog always does that so any perl script
> > reporting to syslog via that mechanism has extra blank lines. (MacOS
> > X 10.4.2).
>
> I would guess, without looking at any code, that the syslog stuff always
> adds a newline to the end of the message text when logging. If the
message
> text already ends in a newline, you get a blank line. Probably all or
> almost all of the sa log lines already end with a newline.
>
> The trivial change is to not add the extra newline if the text already
ends
> in a newline. If that is awkward, filter off any terminal newline in the
> text before logging, and the logging code will put one back on.
It's a setup problem somewhere. We do not get the extra newline here.
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Jul 24 04:22:02 morticia fetchmail[21066]: reading message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 1 (4920 octets)
Jul 24 04:22:02 morticia sendmail[24013]: j6OBM2NG024013:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=4929, class=-100, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bodytype=8BITMIME,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Jul 24 04:22:02 morticia fetchmail[21066]: flushed
Jul 24 04:22:03 morticia spamd[23064]: connection from localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1] at port 46920
Jul 24 04:22:03 morticia spamd[23064]: info: setuid to jdow succeeded
Jul 24 04:22:03 morticia spamd[23064]: processing message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for jdow:500.
Jul 24 04:22:06 morticia spamd[23064]: clean message (-2.6/5.0) for jdow:500
in 2.9 seconds, 5255 bytes.
Jul 24 04:22:06 morticia spamd[23064]: result: . -2 -
BAYES_00,MIME_QP_LONG_LINE
scantime=2.9,size=5255,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,bayes=2.22044604925031e-16,autolearn=disabled
Jul 24 04:22:06 morticia sendmail[24084]: j6OBM2NG024013:
to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:04,
mailer=local, pri=215113, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
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It might be something one of his ancilliary tools line AmaVis or ClamAV
would do?
{^_^}
