Bug #2231
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sendmail /etc/mail/statistics ignored : #O StatusFile
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Description
Thought while trying to get sendmail firmed up that statistics would be nice.
From the docs, notably /etc/mail/cf/README, the default is
STATUS_FILE [/etc/mail/statistics] The file containing status
information.
after touching this file and restarting sendmail, mailstats should work:
# ls -la /etc/mail/statistics -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 mars 4 11:06 /etc/mail/statistics # mailstats mailstats: no statistics file located # grep StatusFile /etc/mail/sendmail.cf #O StatusFile
is something missing from the build procedure?
I presume as a workaround I can explicitly declare the file in my sendmail.mc, but I should have too... the statistics file creation by 'touch' should be enough.
Any confirmation?
btw, a secondary nit, I notice that the manpage for sendmail still references the apparently deprecated filename 'sendmail.st'
StatusFile (Sfile)
Logs statistics in the named file. By default, this is
/etc/mail/sendmail.st. As root, you must touch(1) this
file to enable mailstats(1).
Updated by Richard PALO over 9 years ago
workaround is to add
define(`STATUS_FILE',`/etc/mail/statistics')dnl
to the sendmail.mc file
do make and copy sendmail.cf to /etc/mail which now contains
/etc/mail/cf/cf# make test ! -f sendmail.cf || /usr/bin/mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.prev /usr/ccs/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf /etc/mail/cf/cf# grep StatusFile sendmail.cf O StatusFile=/etc/mail/statistics /etc/mail/cf/cf# cp sendmail.cf ../../sendmail.cf /etc/mail/cf/cf# svcadm restart sendmail /etc/mail/cf/cf# mailstats Statistics from Sun Mar 4 16:14:38 2012 M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis msgsqur Mailer ===================================================================== T 0 0K 0 0K 0 0 0 C 0 0 0
Updated by Gary Mills over 9 years ago
I assume that /etc/mail/statistics is actually being updated.
The problem is that `mailstats' doesn't know about it. This
is because it reads /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by default to find
that file. If there's a bug, it's with /usr/bin/mailstats .
Updated by Richard PALO over 9 years ago
I don't believe so.
Just tried rolling back as before.
mailstats will work with : mailstats -f /etc/mail/statistics
but displays 0 regardless of the number of mails transmitted.
Put the workaround back in and restarted,
mailx (naturally) works without -f, but now the counters seem to correspond to the number of messages exchanged.
fwiw