Patch for do_sendmail.c for later sendmail releases
[I posted this earlier in the week but attached to another thread. Sending again in case it's of interest to others]
In setting up the sendmail graphs, I found that some fields introduced in later sendmail versions were not logged/displayed.
The attached patch to do_sendmail.c will allow the extra field introduced in sendmail 8.13.x to be graphed. It should still work with most earlier versions of sendmail back to at least 8.9.x (if you're running a version that old, it's time to upgrade!)
As we only run 8.13.x in production, Testing with 8.11.x has been minimal.
Regards Geoff Steer Firstwave Technology
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:07:16AM +1000, Geoff Steer wrote:
In setting up the sendmail graphs, I found that some fields introduced in later sendmail versions were not logged/displayed.
The attached patch to do_sendmail.c will allow the extra field introduced in sendmail 8.13.x to be graphed.
The only problem I have with this is that it changes the layout of the RRD file. So applying this will cause Hobbit to stop working with those installations that have an existing sendmail.rrd file created with the old layout.
There's currently no way of "gently" adding a dataset to an RRD file. If this data item is interesting to track, I think the best way of doing it might be to create a new "sendmail813.rrd" file with the new layout and use that instead.
Henrik
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