[CentOS] sendmail and rbl blocking - generating statistics
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 14 22:15:11 UTC 2007
Ryan Simpkins wrote:
> On Wed, March 14, 2007 14:08, Will McDonald wrote (trimmed):
>> On 14/03/07, Ryan Simpkins <centos at ryansimpkins.com> wrote:
>>> Try doing a simple 'cat /var/log/maillog | grep -c check_relay'
>> You can avoid the unnecessary 'cat' by just passing the filename to grep directly:
>>
>> # grep -c 'checK_relay.*spamhaus' /var/log/maillog
>> # grep -c 'checK_relay.*spamcop' /var/log/maillog
>> # grep -c 'checK_relay.*njabl' /var/log/maillog
>>
>> Would probably be more efficient and faster, you can test with 'time' to verify
> this. You're spawning one process 'grep', instead of three seperate processes,
> 'cat, 'grep' and 'grep' again.
>
> Am I using time right to measure it?
No, you're timing the cat only.
>
> # time cat /var/log/maillog | grep check_relay | grep -c njabl
> 8
>
> real 0m0.299s
> user 0m0.289s
> sys 0m0.009s
>
Too short for useful measurement with these tools.
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Cheers
John
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