[collectd] patch for email stats from postfix and amavisd-new, dns stats from powerdns

[Alexander Wirt]

Luke Heberling schrieb am Sonntag, den 18. November 2007:

> Hello collectd. Thanks for the use of your code. Hope you can make
> use of this patch.
> 
> This patch adds mention of the new plugins to these files:
> README
> configure.in
> debian/collectd.conf
> debian/control
> src/Makefile.am
> src/collectd.conf.in
> src/collectd.conf.pod
> src/types.db
> 
> and the plugin files themselves:
> src/amafix.c
> src/pdns.c
> 
> amavisd-new and postfix statistics are gathered by parsing the
> log file (i.e. /var/log/mail.log). Unfortunately there does not
> appear to be a better way of doing this.
Please don't do this. At least not for amavisd-new. Use amavisd-nanny or the
bdb stats databases. Alternativly you can also call the snmp agent by hand.

But do _not_ scan logfiles. The format is adaptable and will offen be
changed. and also scanning logs is pervert and something that should never be
done. 

Alex