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NEWS.DAILY(8)							 NEWS.DAILY(8)

NAME
       news.daily - do regular Usenet system administration

SYNOPSIS
       news.daily [ keyword...	]

DESCRIPTION
       News.daily  performs  a number of important Usenet administrative func‐
       tions.  This includes producing a  status  report,  removing  old  news
       articles, processing log files, rotating the archived log files, renum‐
       bering the active file, removing any old	 socket	 files	found  in  the
       <pathrun	 in inn.conf> directory, and collecting the output.  This pro‐
       gram should be run under the news administrator's id, not as root.

       By default, news.daily performs all of its functions and mails the out‐
       put  to	the  news administrator, <USER specified with --with-news-mas‐
       ter at configure>.  By specifying ``keywords'' on the command line,  it
       is  possible  to	 modify the functions performed, as well as change the
       arguments given to expire(8) and expireover(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 ``noro‐
       tate'' keyword (or perhaps the ``notdaily'' keyword) to prevent the log
       files from being processed and rotated too fast.

       The shlock(1) program is used to prevent simultaneous executions.

KEYWORDS
       The following keywords may be used:

       delayrm
	      This  uses  the ``-z'' flag when invoking expire and expireover.
	      The names of articles to be removed are written to  a  temporary
	      file, and then renamed after expiration by calling expirerm(8).

       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
	      right location when finished.

       nostat This  keyword  disables  the  status report generated by innstat
	      (see innstat(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 function.

       noexpireover
	      By  default,  expireover is invoked to remove old overview data‐
	      base, if enableoverview is set in inn.conf.  Using this  keyword
	      disables this function.

       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='args for expire'
	      By default, expire is invoked with argument ``-v1''.  Using this
	      keyword changes the arguments 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	 func‐
	      tions.

       norotate
	      By  default,  log	 processing includes rotating and cleaning out
	      log files.  Using this keyword disables the rotating and	clean‐
	      ing  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''  keyword  is	 used.
	      The  ``norotate''	 keyword  is  passed  on  to scanlogs if it is
	      invoked.

       norenumber
	      This keyword disables the ctlinnd(8) renumber  operation.	  Nor‐
	      mally,  the  low-water  marks for all newsgroups (see active(5))
	      are reset.

       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 keyword 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.   If	 no  overview  data  is	 created,  the
	      ``expireover'' keyword is not needed.  This is the case that the
	      server runs only for feeder(no reader).

       expireoverflags='args for expireover'
	      If  the ``expireover'' keyword is used, this keyword may be used
	      to specify the  flags  to	 be  passed  to	 expireover.   If  the
	      ``delayrm''  keyword  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	alter‐
	      nate  expiration program and use the ``noexpire'' keyword.  Mul‐
	      tiple programs may be specified; they will be invoked in order.

       postexec='post executed program'
	      The program specified by the given path is executed  just	 after
	      all  expiration  is  done.   Multiple programs may be specified;
	      they will be invoked in order.

       lowmark
	      If the ``lowmark'' keyword is used, ctlinnd(8) lowmark  is  used
	      for  renumbering	active.	  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.

       tmpdir=path
	      Sets the environment variable  TMPDIR  to	 the  specified	 path.
	      Various parts of the expire process, such as sort, will then use
	      this path as the directory for temporary files.

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
       6398, dated 2003-07-12.

SEE ALSO
       active(5), ctlinnd(8), expire(8), fastrm(8),  inn.conf(5),  newslog(5),
       innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).

								 NEWS.DAILY(8)
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