Sendmail Queue lenghts

[Ugo Bellavance]

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William Burns wrote:
> Ugo:
> 
> Here's what I use.
> 
> This script takes two parameters. The first (result1) is the name of a 
> file into which queue information gets dumped.
> The second (result2) is the name of a file which gets a list of all but 
> 40 of the queue entries that are older than 2 minutes.
> 
> My alarm threshold is "If there is a 41st queue entry that's older than 
> 2 minutes". So, if the result2 file ends up being non-empty, then I mail 
> myself a copy of the result1 file.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> I schedule the monitorqueue script to run every 15 minutes.
> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> result1=$1
>> result2=$2
>>
>> ls -l --sort=time --full-time /var/spool/mqueue/|\
>> tail +2 |\
>> (cut --bytes=43-;echo `date '+%a %b %d %X %Y' --date '2 minutes ago'` 
>> "---------
>> -" )|\
>> sort -r > $result2
>> (echo junk;cat $result2)|sed '1,/----------/d'|\
>> tail +41 > $result1
>>
>> (echo junk;cat $result2)|sed '1,/----------/d'|\
>> (echo "number of files older than 2 minutes:" `wc -l`) >> $result2
>> (cd /var/spool/mqueue
>> cat /dev/null|\
>> grep --with-filename "^HTo" `fuser qf* 2>/dev/null|sed 's/:.*//'`
>> ls -ld `fuser qf* 2>/dev/null|sed 's/:.*//;s/qf/\?f/'`) >> $result2 2>&1
> 
> 
> 
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>     Anyone here has scripts for testing queue lengths 
>> (incoming/outgoing) with sendmail?
> 

Thanks everyone...

-- 
Ugo

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