innwatch(8) [redhat man page]

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

NAME

       innwatch - monitor innd.

SYNOPSIS

       innwatch [ -l logfile ] [ -t seconds ]

DESCRIPTION

       Innwatch  is  normally  started by rc.news.  It periodically -- every <innwatchsleeptime in inn.conf> 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 <pathlog in inn.conf>/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 <pathrun in inn.conf>/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 1.6, dated 1998/09/17.

SEE ALSO

       ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).

																       INNWATCH(8)

RC.NEWS(8)						    InterNetNews Documentation							RC.NEWS(8)

NAME

       rc.news - Start or stop INN daemons

SYNOPSIS

       rc.news [start | stop]

DESCRIPTION

       rc.news can be used to start or stop innd and supporting programs.  It checks to make sure INN is not already running, handles cases of
       unclean shutdown, finishes up tasks which might have been interrupted by the preceding shutdown, e-mails certain boot-time warnings to
       newsmaster (as set in inn.conf), and is generally safer and easier than starting and stopping everything directly.  It needs to be run as
       the news user so that files in pathrun are created with the right ownership (though this is less important for "rc.news stop").

       Programs run and stopped by this script include:

       o   Always:  innd is started or stopped.

       o   If doinnwatch is true in inn.conf:  innwatch is started and stopped.

       o   If docnfsstat is true in inn.conf:  cnfsstat is started and stopped.

       o   If ovmethod is set to "ovdb" in inn.conf:  ovdb_init is run; ovdb_server and ovdb_monitor are stopped.

       o   If rc.news.local exists in pathbin:	rc.news.local is run with argument "start" or "stop" (to perform site-specific startup or shutdown
	   tasks).

OPTIONS

       "start"
	   If the first argument is "start", or no first argument is given, rc.news initiates INN startup.

       "stop"
	   If the first argument is "stop", rc.news initiates INN shutdown.  It is recommended to throttle the server first as described in
	   ctlinnd(8).

EXAMPLES

       To start INN and leave certain error messages going to the terminal:

	      su - news -c <pathbin in inn.conf>/rc.news

       To run INN at startup time from appropriate system boot scripts:

	      su - news -c <pathbin>/rc.news >/dev/console

       To stop INN (throttling first):

	      <pathbin>/ctlinnd throttle reason
	      su - news -c '<pathbin>/rc.news stop'

BUGS

       Running "rc.news start" as root is never the right thing to do, so we should at minimum check for this and error, or perhaps change
       effective user ID.

HISTORY

       // FIXME:  any attribution for rc.news itself?

       This manual page written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org> for InterNetNews.

       $Id: rc.news.pod 9340 2011-08-16 13:50:19Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       ctlinnd(8), cnfsstat(8), inn.conf(5), innwatch(8), ovdb(5).

INN 2.5.3							    2011-08-22								RC.NEWS(8)