vpardump(1m) [hpux man page]
vpardump(1M) vpardump(1M) NAME
vpardump - manage monitor dump files SYNOPSIS
[vparmon[dumpfile]] DESCRIPTION
The command is used to create (on PA-RISC systems only) and analyze a virtual partition monitor dump file. vparmon is the image of the virtual partition monitor and dumpfile is the crash dump file corresponding to that image. is normally run from the rc script to analyze a crash dump during HP-UX boot. If no options are specified, checks if the dumpfile has been cleared. If not, it analyzes dumpfile and prints information about the crash to standard out. Then marks the dumpfile as clear. If dumpfile is not specified, the string is appended to vparmon as in If vparmon is not specified, it defaults to The dumpfile must exist prior to a vpar monitor crash. On PA-RISC systems, the and options create the dumpfile on PA-RISC. If is used, a dumpfile is created that is large enough to contain the monitor image. If additional structures are required, such as I/O Page Directo- ries, the option is used to reserve space for a full monitor crash dump. On Itanium(R)-based systems, the monitor dumpfile is created in the EFI partition of the monitor's boot disk as needed. It is not necessary to pre-allocate a dump file in A monitor dump typically requires less than 75 megabytes of free space in the EFI partition. In order to ensure that a complete crash dump can be saved, this much free space must be maintained in the EFI partition. Options recognizes the following command-line options: Analyze the dumpfile. This option can be used to force an analysis even if dumpfile has been cleared. Mark dumpfile as clear. No analysis is performed. Analyze dumpfile even if the versions do not match. Initialize dumpfile for a full dump. Supported only on PA-RISC systems. Initialize dumpfile for a normal dump. Supported only on PA-RISC systems. Do not analyze the dumpfile. Enable verbose output. The and options are allowed on Itanium-based systems for compatibility. No action is taken for the and options. Operands recognizes the following command-line operands: vparmon The name of the image of the virtual partition monitor. If vparmon is not specified, it defaults to dumpfile The name of the crash dump file corresponding to the image of the virtual partion monitor. If dumpfile is not specified, the string is appended to vparmon as in Security Restrictions This command is restricted to processes owned by superuser or with the privilege. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Analyzed dumpfile successfully. Created a new dumpfile. A dumpfile does not exist. The dumpfile is cleared, no action taken. Error attempting to create a dumpfile. Error analyzing the dumpfile. Command syntax error. EXAMPLES
Analyze the default dumpfile and create it if it does not exist: Suppress the analysis of the default dumpfile, and reserve space for a full dump: AUTHOR
was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company. SEE ALSO
vparextract(1M), privileges(5). vpardump(1M)
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ninpaths - Report Usenet Path statistics (new inpaths) SYNOPSIS
ninpaths -p -d dumpfile ninpaths -r site -u dumpfile [-u dumpfile ...] -v level DESCRIPTION
This is an efficient and space-saving inpaths reporting program. It works as follows: you feed it the Path lines via an INN channel feed or some other similar method, and from time to time the program writes all its internal counters accumulated so far to a dump file. Another instance of the program picks up all the dump files, adds them up and formats them into the report. The purpose of the final report is to summarize the frequency of occurrence of sites in the Path headers of articles. Some central sites accumulate the Path data from many news servers running this program or one like it, and then report statistics on the most frequently seen news servers in Usenet article Path lines. The sendinpaths shell script can be run once a month to mail the accumulated statistics to such a site and remove the old dump files. You can get a working setup by doing the following: 1. Create a directory at pathlog/path (replacing pathlog here and in all steps that follow with the full path to your INN log directory). 2. Set up a channel feed using an entry like: inpaths!:*:Tc,WP:ninpaths -p -d <pathlog>/path/inpaths.%d if your version of INN supports WP (2.0 and later all do). Replace <pathlog> with the full path to your INN log directory. 3. Enter into your news user crontab something like: 6 6 * * * ctlinnd flush inpaths! (the actual time doesn't matter). This will force ninpaths to generate a dump file once a day. 4. Once per month, run the sendinpaths script, which collects the dumps, makes a report, and then deletes the old dumps. (You can generate a report without mailing it and without deleting it with "sendinpaths -n".) OPTIONS
-d dumpfile Save dumps in dumpfile. Any %d in dumpfile will be replaced with the current system time when the dump is made. This option should be used with -p. -p Read Path lines from standard input. -r site Generate a report for site. Generally site should be the value of pathhost from inn.conf. -u dumpfile Read data from dumpfile. This option can be repeated to read data from multiple dump files. -v level Set the verbosity level of the report. Valid values for level are 0, 1, and 2, with 2 being the default. NOTES
If your INN doesn't have the WP feed flag (1.5 does not, 1.6 does, 1.7 I don't know, 2.0 and later all do), use the following newsfeeds entry: inpaths!:*:Tc,WH:ginpaths where ginpaths is the following script: #!/bin/sh exec egrep '^Path: ' | ninpaths -p -d <pathlog>/path/inpaths.%d replacing <pathlog> as above. SEE ALSO
newsfeeds(5), sendinpaths(8) This is a slightly modified version of Olaf Titz's original ninpaths program, which is posted to alt.sources and kept on his WWW archive under <http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/sw/>. HISTORY
ninpaths was written by Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>. The idea and some implementation details for ninpaths come from the original inpaths program, but most of the code has been rewritten for clarity. This program is in the public domain. $Id: ninpaths.pod 7851 2008-05-26 19:33:08Z iulius $ INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 NINPATHS(8)