Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (1)Updated: 2010-10-17Local indexUp
NAME
graphdefang.pl - Application for generating graphs from mimedefang log files.
SYNOPSIS
graphdefang.pl [options]
Options:
--help brief help message
--man full documentation
--quiet quiet output
--nodb do not update SummaryDB
--trim trim the SummaryDB
--nomax ignore the max date/time in SummaryDB
--file optional log file to parse
If called with no options, graphdefang.pl will parse the
logfile as defined by the $DATAFILE variable.
OPTIONS
--help
Print a brief help message and exits.
--man
Prints the manual page and exits.
--quiet
Do not produce status output from mimedefang.pl.
--nodb
Do not use nor update the SummaryDB, just parse the file and draw graphs from it.
--trim
Trim the SummaryDB to cut out old data. It trims out:
1. hourly data older than 1.25x$NUM_HOURS_SUMMARY hours
2. daily data older than 1.25x$NUM_DAYS_SUMMARY days
3. all but top 25 sender, recipient, value1, value2, subject values
for all dates prior to the current hour, day, and month..
--nomax
Ignore the max date/time in the SummaryDB; add all lines from the parsed
file to the database.
--file
Optional log file to parse. If this option is not set, graphdefang
will use the $DATAFILE variable.
DESCRIPTION
graphdefang.pl will read a file that contains syslog messages from
mimedefang, update its internal summary database, and produce graphs
as requested by the user.