NAME¶
tally.control - Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions
SYNOPSIS¶
tally.control <
logfile
DESCRIPTION¶
tally.control is normally daily invoked by
scanlogs. It reads its
standard input, which should be the
newgroup.log and
rmgroup.log
control log files. They contain a summary line describing the control message
and the action taken by
controlchan, followed by the article indented
by four spaces, and a blank line. Then,
tally.control updates the
cumulative list of newsgroup creations and deletions which is kept in
control.log.
All these log files reside in the
pathlog directory set in
inn.conf. In order to generate them, you need to enable control
articles logging in
control.ctl(5), as explained in the
control.log entry of
newslog(5).
FILES¶
- pathbin/tally.control
- The Shell script itself used to tally newsgroup creations and deletions
up.
- pathlog/control.log
- This file maintains a count of the number of newgroup and rmgroup control
messages seen for each newsgroup. The count is of the number of control
messages with the indicated arguments, regardless if they were actually
processed. All control arguments, including invalid ones, are counted. An
example of lines which can be found in that log file is:
3 Control: newgroup foo.bar moderated
3 Control: rmgroup misc.removed
1 Control: newgroup misc.created
HISTORY¶
Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
<rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Rewritten and converted to POD by
Julien Elie.
$Id: tally.control.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $
SEE ALSO¶
control.ctl(5),
news.daily(8),
newslog(5),
scanlogs(8).