perl newbie question

[Youn Gonzales]

Resolved. My firewall was blocking the syslog entries. Also, if you are
relaying mail and force-routing it to another server (i.e. mailertable
entries) it is a good idea not to have the destination server set to
throttle connections or filter based on subject line, etc., as your mail
queues tend to fill up fairly quickly.

FYI, I am running on Redhat 7.1 on a Compaq Proliant, quad P-Pro-200 with
1.4G RAM. You can view my mrtg stats at http://mailscan.clas.net as well as
some other stats as I was playing with mrtg. I just changed the MX record
for a few of our domains, so the box isn't nearly under full load yet, but
so far it looks promising. Also, we are currently scanning only incoming
mail. I have to get another server up and running before we start scanning
incoming and outgoing mail.

Youn Gonzales
System Administrator
Comptia A+, Network+, INET+,
Cisco CCNA/CCDA Certified Technician
Microsoft Certified Professional


----- Original Message -----
From: "Youn Gonzales" <ispmgr at clas.net>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: perl newbie question


> I am running mailscanner on redhat 7.1 and everything appears to be
> functioning fine, but I have been unable to get the sendmail.logs.pl
script
> to work properly so that I can use mrtg to monitor the traffic. The total
> number of message is working properly, but the script always reports (0)
> spam and virus messages detected. Mailscanner is detecting messages that
> contain a virus and/or appear to be spam, as it is tagging the spam and
> cleaning the messages that contain a virus. As I am a perl newbie, I do
not
> understand how the script is parsing the logs and counting the virus and
> spam containing messages, but it would appear that everything happens
here:
>
>     if (/mailscanner/) {
>       $TotalViruses += $1 if /found (\d+) viruses in/i;
>       $TotalSpam++        if /message [^\s]+ is spam/i;
>     }
>
> Could someone please explain exactly how these variables are incremented -
> i.e. under what conditions these three if statements evaluate as true and
> how they work?
>
> Thanks!
>
> :-)
>
> Youn Gonzales
> System Administrator
> Comptia A+, Network+, INET+,
> Cisco CCNA/CCDA Certified Technician
> Microsoft Certified Professional