statnews(1) [debian man page]

STATNEWS(1)						      Debian GNU/Linux Manual						       STATNEWS(1)

NAME

       statnews - generate some useful statistics out of a newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

       statnews [OPTIONS] NEWSGROUP

DESCRIPTION

       The statnews command get some useful statistics out of a newsgroup.  It displays things like how many articles each author posted, how many
       characters was written, how many lines were quoted, how many articles belong to each thread, the number of messages/characters per day, the
       average message length, and so on.

OPTIONS

       --capitalize(*)
	   Whether to capitalize the name of both the sender and the receiver of each message (default is "--capitalize": yes).  This option is
	   useful to collect "AUTHOR" together with "author", "Author", and "AuThor".

       --dotted(*)
	   Whether to translate "." to "/" in NEWSGROUP (default is "--nodotted": does translate).  This option may be useful if your system
	   stores each newsgroup in a dedicate directory (e.g., news.useless.group) instead that by hierarchy (e.g., news/useless/group), or if
	   your system has a news archive stored this way.

       --from=DATE
	   Set the date statistics start from (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).

       --help
	   Display the help summary.

       --spooldir=SPOOLDIR
	   Search NEWSGROUP in SPOOLDIR (default is /var/spool/news/articles/).

       --to=DATE
	   Set the date statistics end by (DATE format is "dd/mm/yyyy", GMT).

       --width=WIDTH
	   Set the terminal width to WIDTH columns (default is 80, with a minimum of 70).

       Options may be conveniently abbreviated and prefixed by "-" instead of "--"; the "=" may be omitted or substituted with one or more blanks.

       Options listed with (*) may be negated by adding the prefix "no" in front of them (e.g., "--dotted" => "--nodotted").

RETURN VALUE

       The statnews command returns 0 on success and a positive integer on errors.

ENVIRONMENT

       The environment variable STATNEWS can hold a set of default options for statnews.

       These options are interpreted first by the program and can be overridden by explicit command line parameters.  For example:

       sh: "STATNEWS="--nocapital --width=132"; export STATNEWS"

       csh:
	   "setenv STATNEWS "--nocapital --width=132""

FILES

       The default spool directory is /var/spool/news/articles/.

SEE ALSO

       rn(1), readnews(1).

BUGS

       There are no known bugs.

UNRESTRICTIONS

       This program is copylefted.  Refer to the GNU General Public License for conditions of use.

AUTHOR

       This program has been written and is actively maintained by Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti <salve@debian.org>.

HISTORY

       This program was originally aimed for use with FidoNet style echo areas under Debian GNU/Linux.	It can be successfully used with Usenet
       newsgroups as well.  More precisely, it can be used with every message base that stores one message per file in some directory in
       traditional mbox format.

Debian Project							    2011-12-25							       STATNEWS(1)

SCANSPOOL(8)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SCANSPOOL(8)

NAME

       scanspool - Perform a sanity scan over all articles in news spool

SYNOPSIS

       scanspool [-cnv] [-a active-file] [-s spool-dir]

DESCRIPTION

       scanspool is a Perl script for use with a tradspool article spool.  It will scan the active file as well as all articles in the spool and
       report on the errors it encounters.  As this may take a while, using the -v switch is recommended to see how far the program has
       progressed.

       First, scanspool scans the active file, noting problems such as:

       o   malformed lines;

       o   newsgroups aliased to a non-existent newsgroup;

       o   newsgroups aliased to a newsgroup that is also aliased.

       Then it will examine all articles under your news spool directory, complaining about articles that:

       o   have a basename that starts with a leading 0;

       o   have a basename that is out of range according to the active file;

       o   do not contain a Newsgroups: header line;

       o   are all header and no text;

       o   are in a directory for which there is no newsgroup in the active file;

       o   are in a newsgroup to which they do not belong.

       scanspool understands aliased newsgroups.  Thus, if an article is posted to foo.old.name that is aliased to foo.bar, it will be expected to
       be found under foo.bar and not foo.old.name.

       Articles posted to a newsgroup of status "j" or "x" (the fourth field of the active file) will be expected to show up under the junk group.

       scanspool assumes that the path of a valid newsgroup's directory from the root of the spool tree will not contain any "." character.  Thus,
       directories such as out.going, tmp.dir, in.coming and news.archive will not be searched.  This program also assumes that article basenames
       contain only decimal digits.  Last, files under the top level directory lost+found are not scanned.

OPTIONS

       -a active-file
	   The active file to use; pathdb/active is the default.

       -c  Only check article filenames.  scanspool will therefore not actually scan the Newsgroups: header field of the articles.

       -n  Don't throttle innd while scanning.

       -s spool-dir
	   The root of the spool tree; patharticles is the default.

       -v  Setting this flag enables a verbose mode.  scanspool will then print which newsgroup is currently worked upon.  It will list all the
	   articles found in non-active directories (that is to say articles sorted into groups no longer present in the active file), rather than
	   just printing the group once.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The output of scanspool will start with one of the following forms:

       "FATAL:" (to stderr)
	   Fatal or internal error.

       "WARN:" (to stderr)
	   active or article format problem, newsgroup alias problem, find(1) error, article open error.

       "path/123:" (to stdout)
	   Issues such as:

	   o   basename starts with 0;

	   o   article number out of range;

	   o   article in the wrong directory;

	   o   article in a directory not related to an active non-aliased newsgroup.

       "	 ..." (to stdout)
	   Verbose messages start with a tab.

BUGS

       scanspool is unable to detect and properly deal with spool formats other than tradspool.  However, if the files that store your articles
       are named other than just all-digits, they will simply be skipped (and your active is still checked).

       scanspool only considers the first line of the Newsgroups: header field.  Continuation lines are not taken into account.

HISTORY

       scanspool was written by Landon Curt Noll (chongo was here  /../).

       This manual page was written by Florian Schlichting, largely based on comments in the script.

       $Id: scanspool.pod 9302 2011-08-04 21:10:17Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       active(5).

INN 2.5.3							    2011-08-22							      SCANSPOOL(8)