http://tom.knaupp.com free software, security and a bunch of my strange thoughts Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:13:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tom.knaupp.com/2009/02/25/exim-graphs/ http://tom.knaupp.com/2009/02/25/exim-graphs/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:21:27 +0000 tom http://tom.knaupp.com/?p=186 Because I did not found a tool to create graphs (the way I want it)
from exim logs, I wrote a little bash script that suits my needs.
 
Example graph:
 

 
Download: exim_rrd-0.9.5.1 (updated 2009-03-07 [bugfix])
 
I’m not a programmer, so the script can be improved – no question : )
If you have any hints, please tell me.
 
 
Usage: run as cronjob, i.e.
# mail statistic
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/exim_rrd > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
 
 
dependencies:
rrdtool [ http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ ] ^ thanks to Tobias Oetiker
(e)grep
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tested with:
rrdtool 1.2.23, rrdtool 1.2.27
openSUSE 10.3 (i586), exim 4.69 main log
openSUSE 11.0 (i586), exim 4.69 main log

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