[plug] Trivial Message from Qmail

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
> I have installed Qmail on my system and in the process for tweaking it.
> The TEST.deliver document says, I should expect to see the following
> messages in the SYSLOG.
> qmail: new msg 53
> qmail: info msg 53: bytes 246 from <me at domain> qp 20345 uid 666
> qmail: starting delivery 1: msg 53 to local me at domain
> qmail: status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> qmail: delivery 1: success: did_1+0+0/
> qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> qmail: end msg 53
> 
> My SYSLOG, however, shows the following messages.
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.126089 new msg 1756430
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.127301 info msg 1756430: bytes 772 from <> qp 8948 uid 1011
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.129305 starting delivery 4: msg 1756430 to local 
> myself at myhost.bogus.com
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.130491 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.357111 delivery 4: success: did_1+0+0/
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.358461 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> Sep 18 14:27:18 myhost qmail: 937679238.358690 end msg 1756430

Congratulations, looks like your qmail install has worked, then - a
perfect match to the above, no?

> My concern is the numbers. For example 53 as opposed to 1756430.
Seems each message has an attached ID number. Different messages are very
likely to have different IDs. What's important is that, like in the
sample, the number is consistent throughout the message.

> What are the number 937679238.126089?
Hard to say, maybe the qmail docs will tell you. IIRC, qmail is v.well
documented. Just seems like a monotonically increasing number for log
identification. Do other logs on your system have those numbers, or just
the qmail ones? It may well be that your logger is just different to the
guy who wrote the HOW-TO (i.e. it gives more information)

> Can anyone explain this please?
I doubt there is anything to explein. Appears to be running just as the
doctor ordered, at least according to the orders you've relayed onto us.

-Greg