Re: Creating a Script to see if amavis is alive

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:11, 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)
----
Without really thinking this completely through, my initial inclination
would be to set up a mail alias that routes mail to /dev/null. Then I
would have a shell script that has something like...

if mail user_whose_mail_goes_to_dev_null -s "testing for accepting mail"
= 0; then mail real_mail_notification_address -s "Problem with mail
server"; fi

and once I was sure that it worked, I would set it into a cron script.

Craig

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