Bug#476541: exim4-base: please handle nearly-empty logfile in daily cronjob stats

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:41:52AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> That's probably due to very low mail volume on this laptop machine, in
> combination with an earlier logfile rotation.

Please try the following patch against the daily cron job:

--- debian/exim4-base.cron.daily        (revision 2260)
+++ debian/exim4-base.cron.daily        (working copy)
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@
 # Patches for more sophisticated processing are appreciated via the
 # Debian BTS.

+E4BCD_MAINLOG_NOISE="^[[:digit:][:space:]:-]\{20\}\(\(Start\|End\) queue run: pid=[[:digit:]]\+\|exim [[:digit:]\.]\+ daemon started: pid=[[:digit:]]\+, .*\)$"
+
 if [ -n "$E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO" ]; then
   if [ -x "$(command -v eximstats)" ] && [ -x "$(command -v mail)" ]; then
-    < /var/log/exim4/mainlog eximstats $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_OPTIONS \
+    < /var/log/exim4/mainlog grep -v "$E4BCD_MAINLOG_NOISE" \
+                | eximstats $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_OPTIONS \
                 | mail $E4BCD_DAILY_REPORT_TO -s"$(hostname --fqdn) Daily email activity report"
   else
     echo "The exim4 cron job is configured to send a daily report, but eximstats"

Greetings
Marc

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