On 2002-02-14 at 12:33 -0000, Ben Strawson wrote:
> Is there any way to print timestamps against the debugging information
> produced with the "-d" option. I can't see it in the specification, so
> I suspect not. I guess I will have to rebuild and add it myself.
Yes.
> Would this be a sensible feature for version 4 (or more likely a 4.1
> release)?
Unix is a collection of tools which can be combined at the command-line.
As long as "exim -d" always line-buffers, even if the output isn't a
tty, then you can just pipe the output into a filter which adds the
timestamps.
# exim -d ...... 2>&1 | \
perl -MPOSIX=strftime -pe # 's/^/strftime("%H:%M:%S ",gmtime)/e'
That's the clean one, but Perl isn't the best example of a small unix
tool. ;^)
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