🚀 go-pugleaf

you can really see from these numbers when the bitftp server was shut off.

the length of the log files, in bytes, for each month of ftpmail's operation:

-rw-rw-r--  1 root       147850 Apr  7 01:01 .log.90-12
-rw-rw-r--  1 root       457698 Apr  7 01:01 .log.91-01
-rw-rw-r--  1 root       542694 Apr  7 01:01 .log.91-02
-rw-rw-r--  1 root       959640 Apr  7 01:01 .log.91-03
-rw-rw-r--  1 root       984924 May 25 19:23 .log.91-04
-rw-rw-r--  1 root      2137269 Jun  4 01:41 .log.91-05

summary of those log files is as follows:

Log File     From                  To                   ftps    parts    kbytes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.log.90-12   12/05/90 08:17:16     12/31/90 19:00:53     740     2012    100758
.log.91-01   01/01/91 03:30:45     01/31/91 23:30:40    2214     7080    365393
.log.91-02   02/01/91 00:00:16     02/28/91 23:52:02    2510     7734    399244
.log.91-03   03/01/91 00:14:29     03/31/91 21:32:31    4414    13148    681933
.log.91-04   04/01/91 05:30:25     04/30/91 23:45:54    4842    10236    494517
.log.91-05   05/01/91 00:35:08     05/31/91 23:38:33   10356    20293    933187

that is not a typographical error.  it explains the multiday delays in may;
ftpmail has a limit of how much network traffic it will generate per unit
time, and the requests have been coming in at (well) over that rate.

cheers,
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Paul Vixie
DEC Western Research Lab	<vixie@pa.dec.com>	<paul@vixie.sf.ca.us>
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