1TALLY.CONTROL(8) InterNetNews Documentation TALLY.CONTROL(8)
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6 tally.control - Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions
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9 tally.control < logfile
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12 tally.control is normally daily invoked by scanlogs. It reads its
13 standard input, which should be the newgroup.log and rmgroup.log
14 control log files. They contain a summary line describing the control
15 message and the action taken by controlchan, followed by the article
16 indented by four spaces, and a blank line. Then, tally.control updates
17 the cumulative list of newsgroup creations and deletions which is kept
18 in control.log.
19 All these log files reside in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf.
21 In order to generate them, you need to enable control articles logging
22 in control.ctl(5), as explained in the control.log entry of newslog(5).
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25 pathbin/tally.control
26 The Shell script itself used to tally newsgroup creations and
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28 pathlog/control.log
30 This file maintains a count of the number of newgroup and rmgroup
31 control messages seen for each newsgroup. The count is of the
32 number of control messages with the indicated arguments, regardless
33 if they were actually processed. All control arguments, including
34 invalid ones, are counted. An example of lines which can be found
35 in that log file is:
36 3 Control: newgroup foo.bar moderated
38 3 Control: rmgroup misc.removed
39 1 Control: newgroup misc.created
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42 Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz
43 <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Rewritten and converted to POD
44 by Julien Elie.
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47 control.ctl(5), news.daily(8), newslog(5), scanlogs(8).
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