Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> Hello Erkan,
> erkan yanar <erkan.yanar@???> (Do 07 Mai 2009 08:55:14 CEST):
>> Hiho,
>>
>> Im playing with the Perlinterface.
>> I wonder for which use-cases "you" use the interface:-)
>> I would like to gather some.
>
> I used it for a greylist implementation
> (http://www.schlittermann.de/doc/grey)
>
> Best regards from Dresden/Germany
> Viele Grüße aus Dresden
> Heiko Schlittermann
>
Heiko,
Grateful to see the 'Caveat' note on your original fs-based 'grey.sh'
system, wherein it ate all the inodes on a 2GB mount.
JFWIW, it once ate all of the inodes on a 100GB mount as well...
:-(
By comparison, though I no longer do greylisting, writing the 'hits'
into PostgreSQL [1] hasn't raised a sweat, nor would I expect it to do
so with MySQL.
Grüße
Bill
[1] ..which has a decent perl interface among others, though I just use
Exim's INSERT and SELECT SQL calls.