debian man page for innwatch

INNWATCH(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       INNWATCH(8)

NAME
       innwatch - monitor innd.

SYNOPSIS
       innwatch [ -l logfile ] [ -t seconds ]

DESCRIPTION
       Innwatch  is  normally  started	by /etc/news/boot.  It periodically -- every (600) seconds -- examines the load average, and the number of
       free blocks and inodes on the spool partition, as described by its control file, innwatch.ctl(5).

       If the load gets too high, or the disk gets too full, it throttles the server.  When the condition restores, it unblocks  the  server.	In
       addition,  on each pass through the loop it will check the logfile /var/log/news/news.crit to see if it has been modified, and send mail to
       the news administrator if so.

       Upon receipt of an interrupt signal (SIGINT), innwatch will report its status in the file /var/run/innd/innwatch.status.

OPTIONS
       -l     To specify a log file to watch, other than the default of news.crit, use the ``-l'' flag.

       -t     To change the period between check from the default, use the ``-t'' flag.

HISTORY
       Written by Mike Cooper <mcooper@usc.edu>, with modifications by <kre@munnari.oz.au>,  Steve Groom <stevo@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> and Christophe
       Wolfhugel <wolf@pasteur.fr>.  This is revision 1.2, dated 1996/11/26.

SEE ALSO
       ctlinnd(8), innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).

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