dovecot - Oct 2007 - verbose_proctitle for proxy processes?

Hi,

We're using Dovecot to proxy incoming POP3 and IMAP connections to the right
server. We'd like to be able to see what connections are currently open on 
the proxy servers, without having the parse the log file.

For normal mail processes it's possible to use verbose_proctitle for this 
purpose, but this setting doesn't work for proxy/login processes. Is it 
possible to do something similar for proxy processes? Even without displaying 
the username and IP address, it would be useful to be able to see the 
difference between normal (idle/active) login processes, and proxy processes.

Onno
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On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 21:27 +0200, Onno Molenkamp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're using Dovecot to proxy incoming POP3 and IMAP connections to the
right
> server. We'd like to be able to see what connections are currently open
on
> the proxy servers, without having the parse the log file.
> 
> For normal mail processes it's possible to use verbose_proctitle for
this
> purpose, but this setting doesn't work for proxy/login processes. Is it
> possible to do something similar for proxy processes? Even without
displaying
> the username and IP address, it would be useful to be able to see the 
> difference between normal (idle/active) login processes, and proxy
processes.
I guess you're using Linux? This should work if you change Dovecot's
sources a bit:

src/lib/process-title.c:

/* NOTE: This really is a horrible hack, I don't recommend using it for
   anything else than debugging. */
/*#define LINUX_PROCTITLE_HACK*/

Then you'll see "imap-login [IP]" for connected processes.

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