That work's great. It is buffering the output (so I can't always see
the last few characters), but with -d 11 there is enough being produced
that it doesn't cause a problem.
Thanks a lot for that.
Ben.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Pennock [mailto:Phil.Pennock@globnix.org]
> Sent: 14 February 2002 16:34
> To: Ben Strawson
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Debugging and Timestamps (more of a
> feature request!)
>
>
> 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. ;^)
> --
> Fimbul never has more than three drinks. It goes one, two,
> three, three, three. I suggested the one, two, many, but he
> insists that it's only three.
> -- Ereshkigal on nanae
>
