From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 3 14:55:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745C915640 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leif@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA30912 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:55:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leif@neland.dk) Message-ID: <018a01bf264e$765a57c0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> From: "Leif Neland" To: Subject: Query pop3-server of progress Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:49:13 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sometimes a customer calls support saying he can't get his mail from the = pop3-server. Often it's just because the progress-meter doesn't move very quickly = when his mailbox contains an 8MB-attachment containing a funny avi a = 'friend' has sent him. We're using qpopper, but wouldn't mind changing if something else could = provide this. Could this be implemented, and has somebody done it? pid=3D`ps axuw|grep popper|grep $username|grep -v grep` kill -USR1 $pid sleep 5 cat /tmp/popstat.$pid The pop3-server should dump some stats in a file, eg number of files sent and total number of bytes sent and total perhaps even transfer speed and eta. This could be accessed from a cgi Good idea, right? :-) Leif =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message