I've had a mail spooler die on me today and after wrangling NIS+ for a bit, I got a second spooler up and running. The problem now is that anything between 2AM and 1PM only exists in sendmail's log file (sm-mta) which was on a different machine anyway. While I don't plan on scouring that file for any messages that have gone missing due to the spooler crashing, I have to wonder: is there some way of actually doing that?
There's no hope of recovering the spooler, the drive failed, it won't spin up, it's just dead. So really anything that came in between 2AM (when the last backup ran) and 1PM (when the spooler died) is sitting in the log file. Everyone in the building knows they're SOL when it comes to e-mails that arrived in that window, but in the back of my mind I know I can just as well scan that sm-mta log file and yank messages out of it. I'm just wondering if there's some script floating out there that could possibly help (or am _I_ also SOL? <grin> )
-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
