1NINPATHS(8) InterNetNews Documentation NINPATHS(8)
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6 ninpaths - Report Usenet Path statistics (new inpaths)
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9 ninpaths -p -d dumpfile
10 ninpaths -r site -u dumpfile [-u dumpfile ...] -v level
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14 This is an efficient and space-saving inpaths reporting program. It
15 works as follows: you feed it the Path lines via an INN channel feed
16 or some other similar method, and from time to time the program writes
17 all its internal counters accumulated so far to a dump file. Another
18 instance of the program picks up all the dump files, adds them up and
19 formats them into the report. The purpose of the final report is to
20 summarize the frequency of occurrence of sites in the Path headers of
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22 Some central sites accumulate the Path data from many news servers
24 running this program or one like it, and then report statistics on the
25 most frequently seen news servers in Usenet article Path lines. The
26 sendinpaths shell script can be run once a month to mail the
27 accumulated statistics to such a site and remove the old dump files.
28 You can get a working setup by doing the following:
30 1. Create a directory at pathlog/path (replacing pathlog here and in
32 all steps that follow with the full path to your INN log
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34 2. Set up a channel feed using an entry like:
36 inpaths!:*:Tc,WP:ninpaths -p -d <pathlog>/path/inpaths.%d
38 if your version of INN supports WP (2.0 and later all do). Replace
40 <pathlog> with the full path to your INN log directory.
41 3. Enter into your news user crontab something like:
43 6 6 * * * ctlinnd flush inpaths!
45 (the actual time doesn't matter). This will force ninpaths to
47 generate a dump file once a day.
48 4. Once per month, run the sendinpaths script, which collects the
50 dumps, makes a report, and then deletes the old dumps. (You can
51 generate a report without mailing it and without deleting it with
52 "sendinpaths -n".)
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55 -d dumpfile
56 Save dumps in dumpfile. Any %d in dumpfile will be replaced with
57 the current system time when the dump is made. This option should
58 be used with -p.
59 -p Read Path lines from standard input.
61 -r site
63 Generate a report for site. Generally site should be the value of
64 pathhost from inn.conf.
65 -u dumpfile
67 Read data from dumpfile. This option can be repeated to read data
68 from multiple dump files.
69 -v level
71 Set the verbosity level of the report. Valid values for level are
72 0, 1, and 2, with 2 being the default.
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75 If your INN doesn't have the WP feed flag (1.5 does not, 1.6 does, 1.7
76 I don't know, 2.0 and later all do), use the following newsfeeds entry:
77 inpaths!:*:Tc,WH:ginpaths
79 where ginpaths is the following script:
81 #!/bin/sh
83 exec egrep '^Path: ' | ninpaths -p -d <pathlog>/path/inpaths.%d
84 replacing <pathlog> as above.
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88 newsfeeds(5), sendinpaths(8)
89 This is a slightly modified version of Olaf Titz's original ninpaths
91 program, which is posted to alt.sources and kept on his WWW archive
92 under <http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/sw/>.
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95 ninpaths was written by Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>.
96 The idea and some implementation details for ninpaths come from the
98 original inpaths program, but most of the code has been rewritten for
99 clarity. This program is in the public domain.
100 $Id: ninpaths.pod 7851 2008-05-26 19:33:08Z iulius $
102INN 2.5.2 2010-08-11 NINPATHS(8)