Released 4.50.8 --- Re: Time::HiRes for MessageBatch timing

[Julian Field]

Could someone add some documentation to the wiki about the new 
command-line options please?
They are fairly obvious once you've tried them, but their existence and 
purpose should be documented. And they all need adding to the 
trouble-shooting sections.

I would be very grateful if someone could do this for me.

Thankyou folks!

Julian Field wrote:
> Now done. At the end of the batch, the wall-clock time taken to 
> process that batch is logged.
>
> This is in 4.50.8, which I have just released.
>
> This version has added lots of command-line options that you can use 
> to do things like
>    - Check your configuration for errors (--lint)
>    - Switch on "Debug = yes" (--debug)
>    - Calculate the value of a configuration option,
>      given a set of message values,
>      to provide a ruleset checker and
>      Custom Function checker (several options)
>    - Display command line usage (--help)
>
> Don't forget that you can easily change the amount of logs generated 
> by MailScanner by editing /etc/syslog.conf and changing the "mail" log 
> priorities that are logged in /var/log/maillog. And if you don't want 
> to do that, then change MailScanner.conf to log to "local0" instead of 
> "mail" and separate it out into its own log channel completely.
>
>
> Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> if/when you do it, you could do it like spamassassin does - uses 
>> Time::HiRes
>> only when it is available. From SA INSTALL:
>>
>>   - Time::HiRes (from CPAN)
>>
>>     If this module is installed, the processing times are 
>> logged/reported
>>     more precisely.
>>
>> Nerijus
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:03:00 +0000 Julian Field 
>> <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> This just didn't happen as I haven't had the time to add a whole 
>>> new  Perl module to the MailScanner distribution.
>>>
>>> On 4 Nov 2005, at 16:27, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Julian,
>>>>
>>>> Per my recent request for batch timing in the logs, please
>>>> look at my suggested changes for MessageBatch.pm (attached,
>>>> against 4.47.4).  My changes have NOT been tested at all, so I  
>>>> don't know if this will work.  The changes:
>>>>
>>>> * added Time::HiRes for timing the start and end timing on
>>>>   a batch of messages.
>>>>
>>>> * changed output of information in EndBatch from integer
>>>>   to float
>>>>
>>>> * Added a "Batch Completed in x.x seconds" syslog, even if
>>>>   "Log Speed" is not turned on in the config file.
>>>>
>>>> Please see if my idea makes sense.  Since HighRes is required
>>>> for SpamAssassin, why not use it here too to give better info?
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>> Colby College
>>>>       
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