[Mimedefang] graphdefang on remote server

[Chris Gauch]

Chris,

Thanks for the suggestion about remote syslogging -- it has worked out great
so far, taking a huge load off of our MIMEDefang server.  The mail is logged
remotely on a notsobusy Linux server and graphdefang runs well on that
server hourly (still takes about 10-15 minutes to run graphdefang.pl due to
our large mail volume), not affecting the mail processing services on the
MIMEDefang server.  

I would recommend this solution to anyone who has seen their mimedefang mail
gateway take a hit when running graphdefang .

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Myers
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] graphdefang on remote server

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steffen Kaiser" <skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] graphdefang on remote server


> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Chris Gauch wrote:
>
> > So, my question is, is there a way to have graphdefang process a maillog
> > remotely so that my MIMEDefang server isn't brought to its knees even
>
> If you don't like to have syslog forward the messages to another server,
> how about rsync'ing the log file from the mail relay to the log generator,
> just before you call graphdefang?

That would work, too.  With rsync you take the CPU and I/O hit all at once
rather than spreading it out across the hour with syslog, but that would
still be a lot less load than graphdefang imposes.

To deal with clock sync issues, I would definitely suggest pulling the
logfile rather than pushing it.  It wouldn't be a good thing to be slightly
out of sync and copy the logfiles 27 seconds after graphdefang runs... :-)

Chris Myers
Networks By Design


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