NEWS.DAILY(8)NEWS.DAILY(8)NAMEnews.daily - do regular Usenet system administration
SYNOPSISnews.daily [ keyword... ]
DESCRIPTION
News.daily performs a number of important Usenet adminis-
trative functions. This includes producing a status
report, removing old news articles, processing log files,
rotating the archived log files, renumbering the active
file, removing any old socket files found in the ``fire-
wall'' directory, and collecting the output. This program
should be run under the news administrator's id, not as
root.
By default, news.daily performs all of its functions and
mails the output to the news administrator,
<USER specified with --with-news-master at configure>. By
specifying ``keywords'' on the command line, it is possi-
ble to modify the functions performed, as well as change
the arguments given to expire(8) and expireover(8) or
expireindex(8).
News.daily should be run once a day, typically out of
cron(8). It may be run more often, but such invocations
should at least use the ``norotate'' keyword to prevent
the log files from being processed and rotated too fast.
The shlock(1) program is used to prevent simultaneous exe-
cutions.
KEYWORDS
The following keywords may be used:
delayrm
This uses the ``-z'' flag when invoking expire and
expireover or expireindex. The names of articles
to be removed are written to a temporary file, and
then renamed after expiration by calling expir-
erm(8). If the ``delayrm'' keyword is specified,
the ``expireover'' keyword is specified implicitly.
expctl=path
Specify the file to use as the expire.ctl(5) file
for expire.
expdir=path
By default, expire builds the new history(5) file
and database in the same directory as the current
files. Using this keyword specifies a different
local to build the new files (by passing the ``-d''
flag to expire), which will then be moved to the
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right location when finished.
nostat This keyword disables the status report generated
by innstat (see newslog(8)). Without this keyword,
the status report is the first function performed,
just prior to obtaining the news.daily lock.
notdaily
By default news.daily expects to be run only once a
day, and it does various things (like rotating
logs) that normally should only be done on daily
basis. Use this keyword any extra times news.daily
is run in the day and the normal logfile processing
(and rotation) will not be done.
noexpire
By default, expire is invoked to remove old news
articles. Using this keyword disables this func-
tion.
noexplog
Expire normally appends information to <pathlog in
inn.conf>/expire.log (see newslog(5)). Using this
keyword causes the expire output to be handled as
part of news.daily's output. It has no effect if
the ``noexpire'' keyword is used.
flags='expire args'
By default, expire is invoked with the an argument
of ``-v1''. Using this keyword changes the argu-
ments to those specified. Be careful to use quotes
if multiple arguments are needed. This keyword has
no effect if the ``noexpire'' keyword is used.
nologs After expiration, scanlogs(8) is invoked to process
the log files. Using this keyword disables all log
processing functions.
norotate
By default, log processing includes rotating and
cleaning out log files. Using this keyword dis-
ables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log
processing: the logs files are only scanned for
information and no contents are altered.
This keyword has no effect if the ``nologs'' key-
word is used. The ``norotate'' keyword is passed
on to scanlogs if it is invoked.
norenumber
This keyword disables the ctlinnd(8) renumber oper-
ation. Normally, the low-water mark for all news-
groups (see active(5)) is reset.
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norm By default, any socket ctlinnd socket that has not
been modified for two days will be removed. Using
this keyword disables this function.
nomail News.daily normally sends a mail message containing
the results to the administrator. Using this key-
word causes this message to be sent to stdout and
stderr instead. Normally, all utilities invoked by
the script have their stdout and stderr redirected
into a file. If the file is empty, no message is
sent.
expireover
The expireover program is called after expiration
to purge the overview databases or indices. If you
have turned on the storage manager with the 'stor-
ageapi' in inn.conf(5), expireindex program is
called instead. If storageapi turned on and no
overview data is created, the ``expireover'' key-
word is not needed. This is the case that the
server runs only for feeder(no reader).
expireoverflags='expireover args'
If the ``expireover'' keyword is used, this keyword
may be used to specify the flags to be passed to
expireover or expireindex. If the ``delayrm'' key-
word is used, then the default value is ``-z'' and
the list of deleted files; otherwise, the default
value is ``-s''.
/full/path
The program specified by the given path is executed
just before any expiration is done. A typical use
is to specify an alternate expiration program and
use the ``noexpire'' keyword. Multiple programs
may be specified; they will be invoked in order.
lowmark
If the ``lowmark'' keyword is used, ctlinnd(8) low-
mark is used for renumbering active(5). Normal
ctlinnd(8) renumber operation will take long time.
With ``lowmark'' keyword this will take less time.
If the ``lowmark'' keyword is used, ``norenumber''
keyword is not needed, since news.daily specifies
it implicitly.
HISTORY
News.daily and this manual page written by Landon Curt
Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>.
This is revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.
SEE ALSOactive(5), ctlinnd(8), expire(8), fastrm(8), inn.conf(5),
newslog(5), newslog(8), innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).
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