Shane Williams wrote: > I currently run spamd (3.4.1) with the --debug flag and a subset of > debug channels and it handles enough traffic that the debug > information for emails regularly overlap in the log file. While each > line contains the literal text "spamd" followed by the pid of the > child (in brackets), those pids obviously recur again and again > throughout the log file. > > Is there some way to get a unique (or even mostly unique) identifier > such that I could use it to grep a single "run" of a child process? I > don't see any options that would do this, so I suspect it will > require changing the code, but I thought I'd ask in case I just missed > something.
Mmm, not a direct answer, but... What is in the debug output that you regularly need to see? It might be better to patch spamd to log that at a higher priority. On anything more than a really trivial volume of mail I'd expect your log files to be ginormous running with --debug in production. -kgd
