Sometimes it’s necessary to set the starting point of a MySQL auto-increment value.
Normally, MySQL starts auto-incrementing at 1. But let’s say you want to start at 10.000, because you want at least a five figure number. You can use the following query to set the MySQL auto-index:
ALTER TABLE some_table AUTO_INCREMENT=10000
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Got bash? Here’s a nice snippet that will return the number of messages currently in the postfix queue.
postqueue -p | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f5
Feel free to post any updates or improvements.
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