Name
counter add, counter help, counter increment, counter list, counter reset, counter unlink — manage counters
Synopsis
counter add { counter_name } { delta }
counter help
counter increment { counter_name }
counter list
counter reset { counter_name }
counter unlink { counter_name }
Description
Lua makes use of generic counters. These commands display and manipulate counters.
- counter add
-
Increments the specified counter by the value of the second parameter.
- counter help
-
Displays a brief description of each command.
- counter list
-
Displays the statistics for all counters. See below for sample output:
07:21:07 /tmp/2025> counter list VALUE RESET_TIME SEMANTICS COUNTER 1024 2010-12-02@07:20:58 relaxed /vendor/sample 2 counters listed.All content scanning modules record statistics on scanned virus and spam volume metrics. These metrics are exposed via the counters subsystem and can be viewed using the counter list command.
The counter increment command increments the specified counter by one. For example, you can increment the
/vendor/samplecounter shown in “counter list” by issuing the command counter increment /vendor/sample . - counter unlink
-
Deletes a counter and the counter reset sets a counter to
0.
You can also display and manipulate counters through the following Lua functions: