news.daily(8)



NEWS.DAILY(8)             InterNetNews Documentation             NEWS.DAILY(8)

NAME
       news.daily - Perform daily Usenet maintenance tasks

SYNOPSIS
       news.daily [delayrm] [expctl=path] [expdir=path] [expireover]
       [expireoverflags=args] [flags=args] [lowmark] [mailto=address]
       [noexpire] [noexpireover] [noexplog] [nologs] [nomail] [noprocbatch]
       [norenumber] [norm] [norotate] [nostat] [notdaily] [postexec=program]
       [procbatchdir=path] [tmpdir=path] [/path/to/a/program]

DESCRIPTION
       news.daily performs a number of important Usenet administrative
       functions.  This includes:

       o producing a status report with innstat;

       o removing old news articles (with expirerm if the delayrm keyword is
         specified);

       o purging the overview database with expireover if the corresponding
         eponym keyword is specified;

       o processing log files and rotating the archived log files with
         scanlogs;

       o processing innfeed dropped files with procbatch;

       o renumbering the active file with ctlinnd;

       o rebuilding the history file with expire;

       o removing any old socket files found in the pathrun directory;

       o collecting all the output and mailing it.

       Please note that this program should be run under the news
       administrator's account (usually "news"), not as root.  By default,
       news.daily performs all of its functions and mails the output to the
       news administrator, which is the user specified with --with-news-master
       at configure time (it is "usenet" by default).  You can also change
       this behaviour with the mailto keyword.

       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).  Since it will slow the server down while it
       is running, it should be run during periods of low server usage, such
       as in the middle of the night.  To run it at 3am, for example, add the
       following entry to the news user's crontab file:

           0 3 * * * <pathbin in inn.conf>/news.daily expireover lowmark

       If you're using any non-CNFS storage methods, add the delayrm keyword
       to the above option list for news.daily.

       It may be run more often, but such invocations should at least use the
       norotate keyword (or perhaps 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.

       The program specified by the given path /path/to/a/program 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.

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 renamed after expiration by calling expirerm which in turn
           calls fastrm.

       expctl=path
           Specify the file to use as the expire.ctl file for expire.

       expdir=path
           By default, expire builds the new history file and database in the
           same directory as the current files.  Using this keyword specifies
           a different location to build the new files (by passing the -d flag
           to expire), which will then be moved to the right location when
           finished.

       expireover
           The expireover program is called after expiration to purge the
           overview database.  If no overview data is created, the expireover
           keyword is not needed.  This is the case when the server runs only
           for feeders (no reader).  By default, expireover is not called by
           news.daily.

       expireoverflags=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.

       flags=args
           By default, expire is invoked with argument -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.

       lowmark
           If the lowmark keyword is used, "ctlinnd lowmark" is used for
           renumbering active.  Normal "ctlinnd renumber" operation will take
           long time.  With the lowmark keyword, this will take less time.  If
           the lowmark keyword is used, the norenumber keyword is not needed
           since news.daily specifies it implicitly.

           If the lowmark keyword is given to news.daily, then the expireover
           keyword must also be given; otherwise, that kind of renumbering
           will not be taken into account.

       mailto=address
           By default, news.daily mails the report to the newsmaster address
           specified with --with-news-master at configure time.  The mailto
           keyword can specify a different address to which to mail the
           report.  Note that using this keyword has no effect if the nomail
           keyword is also specified.

       noexpire
           By default, expire is invoked to remove old news articles.  Using
           this keyword disables this function.

       noexpireover
           By default, expireover is invoked to remove old overview database
           if enableoverview is set in inn.conf.  Using this keyword disables
           this function.

       noexplog
           expire normally appends information to pathlog/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.

       nologs
           After expiration, scanlogs is invoked to process the log files.
           Using this keyword disables all log processing functions.

       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.

       noprocbatch
           This keyword disables the run of procbatch on innfeed dropped files
           generated in its spool directory.  These files contain a list of
           articles which were not correctly sent to peers.  By default, they
           will be processed and removed afterwards.

       norenumber
           This keyword disables the "ctlinnd renumber" operation.  Normally,
           the low water marks for all newsgroups are reset in the active
           file.

       norm
           By default, any ctlinnd socket that has not been modified for two
           days will be removed.  Using this keyword disables this function.

       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.

       nostat
           This keyword disables the status report generated by innstat.
           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, and it
           does various things (like rotating logs) that normally should only
           be done on daily basis.  Use this keyword any extra times
           news.daily is run in the day and the normal log files processing
           (and rotation) will not be done.  This keyword implies nologs.

       postexec=program
           The program specified by the given path program is executed just
           after all expiration is done.  Multiple programs may be specified;
           they will be invoked in order.

       procbatchdir=path
           news.daily tries to find the backlog directory of innfeed in
           innfeed.conf.  In case several instances of innfeed are running or
           when its configuration file is not the default one, the
           procbatchdir keyword can be used to specify the path of the backlog
           directory.  This keyword can be used more than once in the command-
           line.

       tmpdir=path
           Overrides the pathtmp setting in inn.conf by setting the
           environment variable $TMPDIR to the specified path.  Various parts
           of the expire process, such as sort, will then use this path as the
           directory for temporary files.

HISTORY
       news.daily and this manual page were written by Landon Curt Noll
       <chongo@toad.com> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
       It was converted to POD by Julien Elie.

       $Id: news.daily.pod 9628 2014-05-14 17:22:01Z iulius $

SEE ALSO
       active(5), ctlinnd(8), expire(8), expire.ctl(5), expireover(8),
       expirerm(8), fastrm(8), inn.conf(5), innstat(8), newslog(5),
       procbatch(8), scanlogs(8), shlock(1).

INN 2.6.4                         2015-09-20                     NEWS.DAILY(8)

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