NEWS.DAILY(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     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 functions.	This includes producing a status report, removing old news
       articles, processing log files, rotating the archived log files, renumbering the active file, removing any old socket files  found  in  the
       ``firewall'' directory, and collecting the output.  This program should be run under the news administrator's id, not as root.

       By default, news.daily performs all of its functions and mails the output to the news administrator, usenet.  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
       ``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 removed 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 spec-
	      ifies  a	different local to build the new files (by passing the ''-d'' flag to expire), which will then be moved to the right loca-
	      tion when finished.

       nostat This keyword disables the status report generated by innstat (see newslog(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.	Use this keyword any extra times news.daily is run in the day and the nor-
	      mal 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.

       noexplog
	      Expire normally appends information to /var/log/news/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='expire args'
	      By  default,  expire  is	invoked with the an argument of ``-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 functions.

       norotate
	      By default, log processing includes rotating and cleaning out log files.	Using this keyword  disables  the  rotating  and  cleaning
	      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.	Normally, the low-water mark for all newsgroups (see active(5)) is 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.

       expireoverflags='expireover args'
	      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 alternate
	      expiration program and use the ``noexpire'' keyword.  Multiple programs may be specified; they will be invoked in order.

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  1.11,
       dated 1996/12/10.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), ctlinnd(8), expire(8), fastrm(8), newslog(5), newslog(8), innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).

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