question ref. mailscanner logging

Fri May 17 09:37:57 IST 2002

On Fri, 17 May 2002 01:40:01 +0100, you wrote:

>The strange thing is, I have far less entries (15-20 a day) in
>/var/log/messages...
>
>May 17 01:19:28 raq959 mailscanner[30495]: Scanning 1 messages, 3564 bytes
>May 17 01:19:28 raq959 mailscanner[30495]: Scanned 1 messages, 3564 bytes in
>0 seconds
>May 17 01:25:58 raq959 mailscanner[30495]: Scanning 1 messages, 3031 bytes

Have you checked every "scanned" line? Sometimes I get lines like
May  8 11:00:01 netlx803 mailscanner[6320]: Scanning 100 messages,
1431261 bytes
May  8 11:01:17 netlx803 mailscanner[6320]: Scanned 100 messages,
1431261 bytes in 5 seconds

You should count field 7 to check whether the numbers match.

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Peter Peters
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