1SCANLOGS(8) InterNetNews Documentation SCANLOGS(8)
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6 scanlogs - Summarize and rotate INN log files
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9 scanlogs [norotate]
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12 scanlogs summarizes the information recorded in the INN log files which
13 reside in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf (see newslog(5) for
14 further details about these log files). It is normally invoked by the
15 news.daily(8) script which performs daily server maintenance tasks.
16 It invokes "ctlinnd flushlogs" to close the news and error log files,
18 rename them to add ".old" to the file names and open fresh news and
19 error logs; the active file is also flushed to disk, along with the
20 history database.
21 By default, scanlogs rotates and cleans out the logs. It keeps up to
23 logcycles old compressed log files in pathlog/OLD (the logcycles
24 parameter can be set in inn.conf). scanlogs also keeps archives of the
25 active file in this directory.
26 It invokes tally.control if newgroup.log or rmgroup.log exists in
28 pathlog (see the control.log entry of newslog(5) for more information
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30 scanlogs displays the first 50 lines of errlog, news.err and news.crit,
32 if non-empty, and runs innreport to summarize the contents of news and
33 news.notice, and to update the unwanted.log file amongst other things
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37 Only one option is currently accepted:
38 norotate
40 Using this option disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the
41 log processing: the logs files are only scanned for information and
42 no contents are altered. If scanlogs is invoked more than once a
43 day, the norotate option should be used to prevent premature log
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47 See newslog(5) for the list of log files processed by scanlogs.
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50 Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
51 <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to POD by Julien
52 Elie.
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55 inn.conf(5), innreport(8), news.daily(8), newslog(5), shlock(1),
56 tally.control(8).
57INN 2.7.1 2022-07-10 SCANLOGS(8)