debian man page for writelog

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

NAME
       writelog - add a entry to an INN log file.

SYNOPSIS
       writelog name text...

DESCRIPTION
       The writelog script is used to write a log entry or send it as mail.  The name parameter specifies the name of the log file where the entry
       should be written.  If it is the word ``mail'' then the entry is mailed to the news administrator, usenet.  The data  that  is  written	or
       sent consists of the text given on the command line, followed by standard input indented by four spaces.  Shlock(1) is used to avoid simul-
       taneous updates to a single log file.

HISTORY
       Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO
       innd(8) innstat(8) news.daily(8), newslog(5), nnrpd(8), scanlogs(8).

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