Actually now that I think about this again the problem with greping the
mail.log would be once the problem was fixed it would continue to alert
until the log was rotated so maybe a better method would be to use
someithing like telnet 127.0.0.1 10024 and upon failure then send mail
to user@....
Jim
Craig White wrote:
>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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