It would probably be better to be more specific in your grep statements. 
When I run that on my system it also shows refused connections for when
remoted mail servers refused connections from my box, such as the
following:

Jul 18 07:36:42 localhost postfix/smtp[4949]: connect to
corp.bla-bla.com[216.105.165.74]: Connection refused (port 25)

This would work:

grep "127.0.0.1.*Connection refused" /var/log/mail.log


Just a thought.......


Anthony


--- elemint@theriver.com wrote:
> I am trying to create a script to see if amavis is alive and upon 
> failure send email to someuser@domain.com
> 
> This is what I have so far.
> 
> 
> cat amavis.check
> grep Connection /var/log/mail.log |grep refused
> 
> if  success
> then cat /amavis.not.alive | mail [email]user@somedomain.com[/email]
> 
> 
> The thought is that when amavis is failing there are messages like the 
> one below in mail.log
> 
> "Jul 20 11:59:09 mail postfix/qmgr[5764]: 25AE16F8DF: 
> to=<user@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=7586, status=deferred (delivery 
> temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection
> refused)
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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