Hello, hello turn your radio on. Is there anybody out there? Help me sing
my song. (Bates - Hello)

 MK> Jul 16 20:29 06, Sean Rima wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 SR>> It is not the contents of the packets I need to see just the total 
 SR>> amount of the outbound, like an outbound manager but not part of a 
 SR>> mailer

 MK> 'ls' works excellent if we're talking linux which I am not sure we are. 
 MK> If so then a simple bash script will work such as;

 MK> #!/bin/bash
 MK> OUTBOUND=/home/fido/outbound
 MK> for file in $OUTBOUND/*.hlo ; do
 MK>    for pkt in `cat $file` ; do
 MK>       echo "Outbound pkts for node $file:"
 MK>       ls -al $pkt
 MK>    done
 MK>    echo
 MK> done

 MK> The above is pretty basic and could be fancied up by replacing $file in
 MK> the echo part with the actual fido node or point address.  Also you may
 MK> have to do simular for the .hlo extention depending on how you deal with
 MK> nodes and/or points.  The general idea is there though and will report
 MK> how many bytes there are in every outbound pkt for every node in the
 MK> outbound directory.  If no *.hlo's then nothing gets echoed back.

 MK> Don't you wish all OS's were that easy to write utils for?  ;-)


Yeah I do but sadly I am challenged at the moment until I can get my ipod
to work via my linux setup and have to use XP

Sean

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This is the end, my only friend, the end...(Doors - The End)
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