Here's a patch that adds the file cron/maillogs, which defaults to running at 5am every morning. This checks the 'error' and 'smtp-failures' files and if they contain any information they are rotated and a summary is sent to the MAILMAN_OWNER address.

Also added is a COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH option which can be set to compress the log files (and specify what command to use for doing so).

Sean

Index: Mailman/Defaults.py.in

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py.in,v retrieving revision 1.83 diff -c -r1.83 Mailman/Defaults.py.in *** Mailman/Defaults.py.in 1999/09/07 18:32:44 1.83 --- Mailman/Defaults.py.in 1999/09/12 09:12:09

*** 83,88 **** --- 83,93 ---- # night to generate the txt.gz file. See cron/nightly_gzip for details. GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = 0

• # Set this to the name of an compression command to run (with "%s" being

• # substituted for the file name to compress) to compress the logfiles.

• # If this value is not set, logfiles will not be compressed.

• #COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH = 'gzip "%s"'

HOME_PAGE = 'index.html' MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME Index: Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in,v retrieving revision 1.21 diff -c -r1.21 Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in *** Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in 1998/06/19 20:11:32 1.21 --- Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in 1999/09/12 09:12:09

*** 55,59 **** --- 55,61 ---- PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private'

• #COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH = 'gzip "%s"'

• # Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg, but you # didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py. Index: cron/crontab.in.in

  RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/cron/crontab.in.in,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -c -r1.12 cron/crontab.in.in *** cron/crontab.in.in 1999/09/04 03:25:36 1.12 --- cron/crontab.in.in 1999/09/12 09:12:09

*** 1,6 **** --- 1,9 ---- # At 5PM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests 0 17 * * * @PYTHON@ @prefix@/cron/checkdbs #

• # At 5AM every day, mail error logs to admin user
• 0 5 * * * @PYTHON@ @prefix@/cron/maillogs

• # # Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery. 0 12 * * * @PYTHON@ @prefix@/cron/senddigests #

  *** cron/maillogs.orig Sun Sep 12 03:08:42 1999 --- cron/maillogs Sun Sep 12 03:01:52 1999

*** 0 **** --- 1,83 ----

• #! /usr/bin/env python
• #
• # Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
• #
• # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
• # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
• # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
• # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
• #
• # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
• # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
• # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
• # GNU General Public License for more details.
• #
• # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
• # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
• # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
• """Check the error logs and send any which have information in them.
• If any log entries exist, a message is sent to the mailman owner address
• and the logs are rotated.
• """
• import sys, os, string, time, errno
• import paths
• from Mailman import mm_cfg, Utils
• import fileinput, socket, time, stat
• # Work around known problems with some RedHat cron daemons
• import signal
• signal.signal(signal.SIGCHLD, signal.SIG_DFL)
• newLogfiles = []
• text = []
• text.append('MailMan Log Report')
• text.append('Generated: %s' % time.ctime(time.time()))
• text.append('Host: %s' % socket.gethostname())
• text.append('')
• logDate = time.strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S', time.localtime(time.time()))
• textSend = 0
• for log in ( 'error', 'smtp-failures' ):
• fileName = os.path.join(mm_cfg.LOG_DIR, log)
• # rotate file if it contains any data
• stats = os.stat(fileName)
• if stats[stat.ST_SIZE] < 1: continue
• fileNameNew = '%s.%s' % ( fileName, logDate )
• newLogfiles.append(fileNameNew)
• os.rename(fileName, fileNameNew)
• open(fileName, 'w')
• os.chmod(fileName, stat.S_IMODE(stats[stat.ST_MODE]))
• os.chown(fileName, stats[stat.ST_UID], stats[stat.ST_GID])
• textSend = 1
• tmp = '# FILE: %s #' % fileNameNew
• text.append('#' * len(tmp))
• text.append(tmp)
• text.append('#' * len(tmp))
• text.append('')
• linesLeft = 30 # e-mail first linesLeft of log files
• for line in fileinput.input(fileNameNew):

•   if linesLeft == 0:

•   linesLeft = linesLeft - 1

•   line = string.rstrip(line)

•   text.append(line)

• text.append('')
• # send message if we've actually found anything
• if textSend:
• text = string.join(text, '\n') + '\n'
• Utils.SendTextToUser('MailMan Log Report -- %s' % time.ctime(time.time()),
• # compress any log-files we made
• if hasattr(mm_cfg, 'COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH') and mm_cfg.COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH:
• for file in newLogfiles:

•   os.system(mm_cfg.COMPRESS_LOGFILES_WITH % file)

  -- Linux: When you need to run like a greased weasel. -- Sean Reifschneider, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous jafo@tummy.com URL: http://www.tummy.com/xvscan HP-UX/Linux/FreeBSD/BSDOS scanning software.