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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Interesting feature Partrick.
I wonder whether it is something we should add in Sympa itself...

We are (actually Adrien is) working on adding access to logs for list 
owners and listmasters. Basically the list owner can search all events 
(messages, subscription, authentication,...) about one user. We could 
probably also check in the spools to tell the list owner that the 
message xyz from abc@efg is in the moderation/confirmation spool.

Thanks for sharing this with all of us Patrick.

Patrick von der Hagen wrote:

> I'm currently trying to generate some meaningful stats for sympa, but currently I fight 
> with "meaningful". ;-)
>
> So, basically I'm running munin (http://munin.sf.net) which gathers numbers 
> using plugins and pushes them to rrd. Very nice, especially since plugins are 
> trivial to create.
>
> Currently I started by counting files in those subdirectories of 
> ~sympa/spool: auth bounce digest distribute expire moderation msg outgoing 
> subscribe task tmp topic msg/bad distribute/bad
>
> I have 21 in digest (seems to be ok), 886 in moderation (yup, sounds 
> reasonable), 206 in outgoing (hey, what's that?), 26 in  task and 650 in 
> msg/bad. Everything else is 0-2.
> Hmm, wondering about outgoing, really....
>
> Well, I'm not really sure wheter or not these numbers are really meaningful, 
> but I'll keep them. ;-)
>
> But what else could be a source of meaningful numbers?
> I'll start parsing syslog and will probably count lines like
> "Moving bad file XXXXX to bad/",
> "Deleting old file /opt/sympa/spool/msg/bad/",
> "Message for XX from YYY rejected() because sender not allowed",
> "Key XXX for list YYY from ZZZ sent to editors",
> "Message for XXX from YYY accepted"
>
> Any other ideas what information could be meaninful and could be counted?
>
> After doing those scripts, I'll contribute them to munin and drop you a line.
>