Eximstats doesn't cope wth gzipped log files on the command line,
despite them being fairly standard as a result of exicyclog. A
search of the archives revealed that it can summarize the files on STDIN
so one can use gzip -dc to process them. Gzip -d (or gunzip) won't
pass non-gzipped files straight through, it gives an error if the
files are not in gzip or compressed format. So I wrote these few
lines of Ruby (I'm more fluent in Ruby than Perl these days :-))
to work around it. This may help someone, so I'm posting it so those
searching the archives can find it. I expect it can be improved,
but it did the job I needed to do.
Hugh
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
open("|/usr/local/exim/bin/eximstats -ne -t10 -q0 > eximstats.out", "w") {
|eximstats|
ARGV.each { |file|
puts file
if file =~ /\.gz/
eximstats.print %x{/usr/local/bin/gunzip -c #{file}}
eximstats.print "\n"
else
eximstats.print %x{/bin/cat #{file}}
eximstats.print "\n"
end
}
}