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TALLY.CONTROL(8)	   InterNetNews Documentation		TALLY.CONTROL(8)

NAME
     tally.control - Keep track of newsgroup creations and deletions

SYNOPSIS
     tally.control < logfile

DESCRIPTION
     tally.control is normally daily invoked by scanlogs.  It reads its standard
     input,  which should be the newgroup.log and rmgroup.log control log files.
     They contain a summary line describing the control message and  the  action
     taken  by controlchan, followed by the article indented by four spaces, and
     a blank line.  Then, tally.control updates the cumulative list of newsgroup
     creations and deletions which is kept in control.log.

     All these log files reside in the pathlog directory set  in  inn.conf.   In
     order to generate them, you need to enable control articles logging in con-
     trol.ctl(5), as explained in the control.log entry of newslog(5).

FILES
     pathbin/tally.control
	 The Shell script itself used to tally newsgroup creations and deletions
	 up.

     pathlog/control.log
	 This  file maintains a count of the number of newgroup and rmgroup con-
	 trol messages seen for each newsgroup.  The count is of the  number  of
	 control  messages with the indicated arguments, regardless if they were
	 actually processed.  All control arguments, including invalid ones, are
	 counted.  An example of lines which can be found in that log file is:

	     3 Control: newgroup foo.bar moderated
	     3 Control: rmgroup misc.removed
	     1 Control: newgroup misc.created

HISTORY
     Written   by   Landon   Curt   Noll   <chongo@toad.com>   and   Rich   $alz
     <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>  for	InterNetNews.  Rewritten and converted to POD by
     Julien Elie.

SEE ALSO
     control.ctl(5), news.daily(8), newslog(5), scanlogs(8).

INN 2.8.0			   2021-09-13			TALLY.CONTROL(8)

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