Author: Marc Perkel Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Vary weird problem - unable to set uid=12
Yeah - I think I get how to talk to a socket in Exim if there's
something to talk to. Not being much of a programmer and barely
understanding some of this I don't know how to create a program to do
what I want and make it listen on a socket for exim to talk to. And
probably what I want to do is dirt simple.
One of the things I do is generate black lists and white lists and a ton
of other lists. I have several exim servers as spam filters and when
certian conditions happen I want to report the event by sending a line
of text to a central listening server that accepts the line and appends
it to a text file. I then have processes (cron) that go through these
files and generate rbldns files for my various lists.
On the sending side I'm running a shell script with the exim run command.
set acl_c_run = ${run{/etc/exim/info/info-report uribl $acl_c_badlink}}
The info-report script is simple.
echo "$*" | nc -w 2 listdata.ctyme.com 107
exit 0
So what I need to do is replace my scripts that use run and nc (netcat)
with a listening socket that does the same thing. I'll bet that socat
probably could do that. But I don't know how. It would make it a lot
faster because I'm running this several times for each message and I'm
sure it's not efficient. Probably causing Linux to melt down.
