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Re: Log file interleaving, was: Determining a message's size in Procmail

2006-12-12 17:58:44
On 12-Dec-2006, at 17:14, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
I suggest you examine your system logs or webserver logs if you  
have an
issue with how procmail is logging.  The various lines of logs  
associated
with an SMTP event for instance don't all appear adjacent to one  
another if
there are several messages in (or out) at the same time.  An HTTP page
request involves making multiple requests - one for each element on  
the
page, and if there are other HTTP downloads at the same time, you  
can be
assured that they're interleaved with one another.

That is true, but when my maillog logs various events, it identifies  
which is which, either with the name of the process (imapd-ssl, smtp,  
spamd) or with the PID, or, mor often, both.  With the HTTP logs, the  
IP address of the remote request and the time stamp is part of every  
log line.

Procmail doesn't do anything like that unless you are very careful to  
do it yourself,a nd even then, it won't do it with verbose output.

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   -- Neil Young as quoted by Kurt Cobain



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