How can I summarize the statistics generated by sendmail in the syslog?
This question is addressed on pages 445-449 of _sendmail, 2nd Ed_ (see page 319 of first edition) by Bryan Costales (see entry sendmail-faq//book/ISBN/1-56592-222-0 in Q6.1). To see what else is available today, check the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. For more information, see the comp.lang.perl.* FAQs at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/lang/perl/. If you’re interested in using these kinds of tools to help you do some near real-time monitoring of your system, you might be interested in MEWS (Mail Early Warning System). From the README: If you’ve ever written a perl script to parse sendmail log files looking for errors, MEWS might be of interest to you. If you’ve ever thought about writing a perl script to munge sendmail log files, cringed a little and hurriedly came up with an excuse not to do it, read on. If you don’t have a Solaris 2.5 machine, you can probably stop reading here. The Mail Early Warning System (MEWS) gives postmasters immediate notification of tr
