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NAME

       md-mx-ctrl - Control mimedefang-multiplexor

SYNOPSIS

       md-mx-ctrl [options] command

DESCRIPTION

       md-mx-ctrl is a command-line tool for communicating with mimedefang-multiplexor(8).

OPTIONS

       -h     Displays usage information.

       -s path
              Specifies  the  path  to  the  mimedefang-multiplexor  socket.   If  not specified,
              defaults to /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock.

       -i     This flag causes md-mx-ctrl to sit in a loop, reading commands  on  standard  input
              and  printing  results  to standard output.  It is intended for use by a monitoring
              program such as watch-mimedefang.

COMMANDS

       The following commands are available:

       status Prints the status of all worker Perl processes in human-readable format.

       rawstatus
              Prints the status of all worker Perl  processes  in  a  format  easy  to  parse  by
              computer.   The  result  is  a  single  line  with  six words on it.  The words are
              separated by a single space character.

              Each character in the first word corresponds to a worker, and is "I"  for  an  idle
              worker, "B" for a busy worker, "S" for a worker which is not running, and "K" for a
              worker which has been killed, but has not yet exited.  A worker is "idle" if  there
              is  a  running  Perl  process waiting to do work.  "Busy" means the Perl process is
              currently filtering a message.  "S" means there is no associated Perl process  with
              the  worker,  but  one can be started if the load warrants.  Finally, "K" means the
              worker Perl process has been killed, but has yet to terminate.

              The second word is the total number of messages  processed  since  the  multiplexor
              started  up.   The  third  word  is  the  total  number  of workers which have been
              activated since the multiplexor started up.  (That is, it's a count of  the  number
              of times the multiplexor has forked and exec'd the Perl filter.)

              The fourth word is the size of the queue for request queuing, and the fifth word is
              the actual number of requests in the queue.   The  sixth  word  is  the  number  of
              seconds elapsed since the multiplexor was started.

       barstatus
              Prints the status of busy workers and queued requests in a nice "bar chart" format.
              This lets you keep an eye on things with a script like this:

                   while true ; do
                        md-mx-ctrl barstatus
                        sleep 1
                   done

       histo  Prints a histogram showing the number of workers that were busy each time a request
              was  processed.   A single line is printed for the numbers from 1 up to the maximum
              number of workers.  Each line contains the count of busy workers (1,  2,  3  up  to
              MX_MAXIMUM),  a  space,  and the number of times that many workers were busy when a
              request was processed.

       load   Prints a table showing "load averages" for the last 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes
              and 10 minutes.

              Each  row  in  the  table  corresponds  to  a time interval, displayed in the first
              column.  The remaining columns in the table are:

              Msgs: The number of messages scanned within the row's time interval.

              Msgs/Sec: The average number of messages scanned per second within the  row's  time
              interval.

              Avg  Busy  Workers:  The  average  number  of  busy  workers whenever a message was
              scanned.  (If you are processing any mail at all, this number will be at  least  1,
              because there is always 1 busy worker when a message is scanned.)

              If  you  have  the watch(1) command on your system, you can keep an eye on the load
              with this command:

                   watch -n 10 md-mx-ctrl load

              If you do not have watch, the following shell script is a less fancy equivalent:

                   #!/bin/sh
                   while true; do
                        clear
                        date
                        md-mx-ctrl load
                        sleep 10
                   done

       rawload

              Prints the load averages in  computer-readable  format.   The  format  consists  of
              twenty-nine space-separated numbers:

              The first four are integers representing the number of messages scanned in the last
              10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.

              The second four are floating-point numbers representing the average number of  busy
              workers in the last 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.

              The third four are floating-point numbers representing the average time per scan in
              milliseconds over the last 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.

              The fourth four are the number of worker activations (new workers started) over the
              last 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.

              The fifth four are the number of workers reaped (workers that have exited) over the
              last 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10 minutes.

              The sixth four are the number of busy, idle, stopped and killed workers.

              The seventh four are the  number  of  messages  processed,  the  number  of  worker
              activations,  the size of the request queue, and the number of requests actually on
              the queue.

              The final number is the number of seconds since the multiplexor was started.

       load-relayok
              Similar to load, but shows timings for filter_relay calls.

       load-senderok
              Similar to load, but shows timings for filter_sender calls.

       load-recipok
              Similar to load, but shows timings for filter_recipient calls.

       rawload-relayok
              Similar to rawload, but shows timings for filter_relay calls.  Note that the worker
              activation and reap statistics are present, but always 0.  They are only valid in a
              rawload command.

       rawload-senderok
              Similar to rawload, but shows timings  for  filter_sender  calls.   Note  that  the
              worker  activation  and  reap  statistics are present, but always 0.  They are only
              valid in a rawload command.

       rawload-recipok
              Similar to rawload, but shows timings for filter_recipient calls.   Note  that  the
              worker  activation  and  reap  statistics are present, but always 0.  They are only
              valid in a rawload command.

       load1 nsecs
              The load1 command displays the load  for  various  commands  over  the  last  nsecs
              seconds,  where nsecs is an integer from 10 to 600.  The load1 command combines the
              output of load, load-relayok, load-senderokf and load-recipok into one display.

              You might use the command like this:

                   watch -n 10 md-mx-ctrl load1 60

       rawload1 nsecs
              Returns the load1 data in human-readable format.  The result is a  line  containing
              twenty-six space-separated numbers:

              The  first  three  numbers  are  the  number  of  scans performed in the last nsecs
              seconds, the average number of busy workers when  a  scan  was  initiated  and  the
              average number of milliseconds per scan.

              The second three are the same measurements for filter_relay calls.

              The third three are the same measurements for filter_sender calls.

              The fourth three are the same measurements for filter_relay calls.

              The  thirteenth through sixteenth numbers are the number of busy, idle, stopped and
              killed workers, respectively.

              The seventeenth number is the number  of  scans  since  mimedefang-multiplexor  was
              started.

              The  eighteenth number is the number of times a new worker has been activated since
              program startup.

              The nineteenth number is the size of the request queue and the twentieth number  is
              the actual number of queued requests.

              The  twenty-first  number  is  the time since program startup and the twenty-second
              number is a copy of nsecs for convenience.

              The twenty-third through twenty-sixth numbers are the number of  workers  currently
              executing a scan, relayok, senderok and recipok command respectively.

       workers
              Displays  a list of workers and their process IDs.  Each line of output consists of
              a worker number, a status (I, B, K, or S),  and  for  idle  or  busy  workers,  the
              process-ID  of  the  worker.   For  busy  workers,  the line may contain additional
              information about what the worker is doing.  The command  slaves  is  a  deprecated
              synonym for this command.

       busyworkers
              Similar  to  workers,  but  only  outputs a line for each busy worker.  The command
              busyslaves is a deprecated synonym for this command.

       workerinfo n
              Displays information about worker number n.  The command slaveinfo is a  deprecated
              synonym for this command.

       reread Forces  mimedefang-multiplexor  to kill all idle workers, and terminate and restart
              busy workers when they become idle.  This forces a reread of filter rules.

       msgs   Prints the total number of messages scanned since the multiplexor started.

ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

       You can supply any other command and arguments to  md-mx-ctrl.   It  percent-encodes  each
       command-line  argument,  glues  the encoded arguments together with a single space between
       each, and sends the result to the multiplexor as a  command.   This  allows  you  to  send
       arbitrary  commands  to  your  Perl  workers.   See  the section "EXTENDING MIMEDEFANG" in
       mimedefang-filter(5) for additional details.

PERMISSIONS

       md-mx-ctrl uses the multiplexor's socket; therefore, it probably needs to be run  as  root
       or the same user as mimedefang-multiplexor.

AUTHOR

       md-mx-ctrl was written by Dianne Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>.  The mimedefang home page
       is http://www.mimedefang.org/.

SEE ALSO

       mimedefang.pl(8),  mimedefang-filter(5),  mimedefang(8),  mimedefang-protocol(7),   watch-
       mimedefang(8)