tally.control - Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions
tally.control <
logfile
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).
-
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
Written by Landon Curt Noll <
[email protected]> and Rich $alz
<
[email protected]> for InterNetNews. Rewritten and converted to POD by
Julien Elie.
control.ctl(5),
news.daily(8),
newslog(5),
scanlogs(8).