[mrtg] Re: Sendmail Monitoring

[Trent Melcher]

Wouldn't mailstats give a more accurate measurement???

Trent

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-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Alex van den Bogaerdt
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:26 PM
To: Yannis Nikolopoulos
Cc: MRTG users
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Sendmail Monitoring



Yannis Nikolopoulos wrote:

> no, it's not an increasing counter. The text file that holds the output of
> "pgrep sendmail | wc -l"  is overwritten every 5 mins,
> therefore the curent number of sendmail processes is fed to MRTG,
therefore,
> it IS a gauge.

yes, you're right.  I misread the message and parsed it somehow as
counting lines from a logfile.

Indeed, you are producing a gauge.

cheers,
alex

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