NAME

       tally.control - Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions

SYNOPSIS

       tally.control < logfile

DESCRIPTION

       tally.control is normally daily invoked by scanlogs.  It reads its standard input, which should be the
       newgroup.log and rmgroup.log control log files.  They contain a summary line describing the control
       message and the action taken by controlchan, followed by the article indented by four spaces, and a blank
       line.  Then, tally.control updates the cumulative list of newsgroup creations and deletions which is kept
       in control.log.

       All these log files reside in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf.  In order to generate them, you need
       to enable control articles logging in control.ctl(5), as explained in the control.log entry of
       newslog(5).

FILES

       pathbin/tally.control
           The Shell script itself used to tally newsgroup creations and deletions up.

       pathlog/control.log
           This  file  maintains  a  count  of the number of newgroup and rmgroup control messages seen for each
           newsgroup.  The count is of the number of control messages with the indicated  arguments,  regardless
           if  they  were  actually  processed.  All control arguments, including invalid ones, are counted.  An
           example of lines which can be found in that log file is:

               3 Control: newgroup foo.bar moderated
               3 Control: rmgroup misc.removed
               1 Control: newgroup misc.created

HISTORY

       Written by Landon Curt Noll  <chongo@toad.com>  and  Rich  $alz  <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>  for  InterNetNews.
       Rewritten and converted to POD by Julien Elie.

SEE ALSO

       control.ctl(5), news.daily(8), newslog(5), scanlogs(8).

INN 2.7.2                                          2024-03-31                                   TALLY.CONTROL(8)