Re: Creating a Script to see if amavis is alive

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Author: Kevin Brown
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Creating a Script to see if amavis is alive
Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:27, wrote:
>
>>Since it is amavis that is having a problem what about setting up a
>>script to "telnet 127.0.0.1 10024" and if it fails then send emial to
>>user@..,.
>>
>>This is how it looks when amavis is runnning
>>
>>telnet 127.0.0.1 10024
>>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>Connected to 127.0.0.1.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>220 [127.0.0.1] ESMTP amavisd-new service ready
>>
>>This is how it looks when amavis is down
>> telnet 127.0.0.1 10024
>>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> ---
> OK - I understand that.
>
> but if new mail comes in, doesn't postfix hold it in the queue until
> amavis is ready? Does mail (postfix) refuse mail?
>
> Also, how does one 'script' a telnet login, capture standard out and
> then logout? That's what I cannot fathom.


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