My vote from the peanut gallery would be for Majordomo to start using Syslog,
and just syslog these proposed per-message log entries. Then you have control
over them by level and facility etc. from the /etc/syslog.conf. Use the
available tools!
Someone sent in a set of patches to implement Syslog in Majordomo, a while
ago. I think I saved them somewhere but never got around to trying to merge
them into one of our running Majordomo.
Chris Koenigsberg
U. of Chicago Academic Computing Services
ckk@uchicago.edu
In message <9509081422.AA15961@miaow.sps.mot.com>, Dave Wolfe writes:
>[ Marko Hotti writes: ]
>>
>> I'd like to see a new feature in resend: If the incoming message passes
>> the administrivia check and resend prepares the message for
>> listname-outgoing, it would optionally append a log message to a file in a
>> majordomo subdirectory, stating who sent the message and when. Each
>> mailing list could have a logfile of its own. I guess this is very easy
>> to implement in the resend code.
>
>But apparently not easy enough that any code was included. ;-)
>
>> There are numerous benefits and no file locking is needed - I guess.
>
>Bad guess. Queuing by sendmail elevates the probability to near 1 that
>multiple messages will arrive at nearly the same time, resulting in
>multiple resend processes running at the same time, some of which will
>be trying to write to the same list log file at the same time. Every
>file that can be modified must be locked for every access.
>
>Seems to me this could be implemented without bothering resend and
>slowing down delivery to the list. Just hook in a tabulator script,
>similar to the way archives are done. Code is left as an exercise for
>those who care. :-)
>
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