Name
StatusFile
Synopsis
At busy and complex mail sites, many different delivery agents are active. For example, one kind of mail might be routed over the Internet using the TCP delivery agent, while another might be routed via the UUCP suite of programs, and yet another might be routed over a DS3 link to a group of research machines. Under such circumstances, it is useful to gather statistical information about the total use to date of each delivery agent.
The StatusFile
option tells
sendmail the name of the file into which it
should save those statistics. This option does
not cause statistics to be gathered. It merely
specifies the name of the file where they might be saved. When
sendmail runs, it checks for the existence of
such a file. If the file exists, it opens and updates the statistics
in the file. If the file doesn’t exist,
sendmail quietly ignores statistics. The
statistics can be viewed by using the
mailstats(8)[64] program (Section 5.4.1).
The forms of the StatusFile
option are as follows:
O StatusFile=path ← configuration file (V8.7 and later) -OStatusFile=path ← command line (V8.7 and later) define(`STATUS_FILE',`path') ← mc configuration (V8.7 and later) OSpath ← configuration file (deprecated) -oSpath← command line (deprecated)
The optional argument path
is of type
string. It can be a relative or a full pathname.
The default value for path
is
statistics. Relative names are always relative
to the queue directory. If the entire option is missing, the value
for
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