INNWATCH(8)

💅 innwatch: the system monitor bestie 💅

okay so bestie, this is INNWATCH(8) from InterNetNews Documentation, and it's literally the page for innwatch — the little monitor that keeps an eye on INN and the system. she's giving watchful bestie with a clipboard energy 👑💖

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✨ NAME ✨

innwatch — monitor the state of INN and the system. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

innwatch [-f ctlfile] [-i seconds] [-l logfile] [-t seconds]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

innwatch is normally started and stopped by rc.news when doinnwatch is set to true in inn.conf. Every innwatchsleeptime seconds — set in inn.conf, along with other parameters tuning its behaviour — innwatch examines the load average, and the number of free blocks and inodes on the spool partition, as described by its control file, innwatch.ctl in pathetc. she's doing her little rounds, periodt 💅

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/news.crit to see if it has been modified, and send mail to the news administrator if so. mail her, bestie, she noticed something 👀

Upon receipt of an interrupt signal (SIGINT), innwatch will report its status in the file innwatch.status in pathrun. iconic signal-handling behaviour, honestly 😭

🎀 OPTIONS: pick your little flags, bestie 🎀

• -f file — specify the control file to use, other than the default of innwatch.ctl in pathetc. custom control file moment 🎀
• -i seconds — with this option, innwatch has an initial sleep of seconds seconds at startup. this is useful when innwatch is started at the same time as INN, so that it can wait a little before beginning performing its checks. little snooze before the vibe check 😴
• -l logfile — specify a log file to watch, other than the default of news.crit. different log, same nosy energy 🔍
• -t seconds — specify the period in seconds between checks, to override the value set in inn.conf. you set the tempo, bestie ⏱️

📜 HISTORY: the origin story 📜

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>. Converted to POD by Julien Elie. collab era, we love to see it 🌈 ✨

🔗 SEE ALSO: go read these too, iykyk 🔗

• inn.conf(5)
• innwatch.ctl(5)
• newslog(5)
• rc.news(8)

that's the whole little ecosystem, bestie — go off 💖

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okay love u, bye — this was INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10, mwah 💋🎀