As someone said, if glueing is in the game, I can tell you my story :) We are using a Perl application to read Postfix' log file 'on-the-fly' to extract data like user id of sender, size of message, etc, and then execute some tasks like throw processed data to MySQL for billing and blocking - if the number of messages sent by an user is suspicious and seems to be spamming.

Another nice use is reading Tarantella's login.log file and check when some user logged in, to control the number of allowed clients (and kill the session if it exceeded) since the product doesn't do that.

Igor 'izut' Sutton
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In reply to Re: Perl and Pipes. Share your story. by izut
in thread Perl and Pipes. Share your story. by DigitalKitty

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