NAME

       scanlogs - Summarize and rotate INN log files

SYNOPSIS

       scanlogs [norotate]

DESCRIPTION

       scanlogs summarizes the information recorded in the INN log files which reside in the pathlog directory
       set in inn.conf (see newslog(5) for further details about these log files).  It is normally invoked by
       the news.daily(8) script which performs daily server maintenance tasks.

       It invokes "ctlinnd flushlogs" to close the news and error log files, rename them to add ".old" to the
       file names and open fresh news and error logs; the active file is also flushed to disk, along with the
       history database.

       By default, scanlogs rotates and cleans out the logs.  It keeps up to logcycles old compressed log files
       in pathlog/OLD (the logcycles parameter can be set in inn.conf).  scanlogs also keeps archives of the
       active file in this directory.

       It invokes tally.control if newgroup.log or rmgroup.log exists in pathlog (see the control.log entry of
       newslog(5) for more information about that).

       scanlogs displays the first 50 lines of errlog, news.err and news.crit, if non-empty, and runs innreport
       to summarize the contents of news, news.notice and perl-nocem.log, and to update the unwanted.log file
       amongst other things (see more information about that in innreport(8)).

OPTIONS

       Only one option is currently accepted:

       norotate
           Using this option disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the logs files are
           only  scanned  for  information and no contents are altered.  If scanlogs is invoked more than once a
           day, the norotate option should be used to prevent premature log cleaning.

FILES

       See newslog(5) for the list of log files processed by scanlogs.

HISTORY

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

SEE ALSO

       inn.conf(5), innreport(8), news.daily(8), newslog(5), shlock(1), tally.control(8).

INN 2.7.3                                          2025-02-21                                        SCANLOGS(8)