TALLY.CONTROL(8)

✨ TALLY.CONTROL(8) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to tally.control from the InterNetNews docs — she's a little shell script with main character energy and honestly? she's iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tally.control — keeping track of newsgroup creations and deletions, no cap 📊

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tally.control < logfile

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so tally.control is normally invoked daily by scanlogs — like, that's her whole routine, she's booked and busy 🗓️

she reads her standard input, which should be the newgroup.log and rmgroup.log control log files. those files contain a summary line describing the control message and the action taken by controlchan, followed by the article indented by four spaces, and then a blank line. the way that format is so specific, i love her for that 🎀

then tally.control updates the cumulative list of newsgroup creations and deletions which is kept in control.log. slay, cumulative ✨

all these log files live in the pathlog directory set in inn.conf. and bestie, lowkey important: in order to generate them, you need to enable control articles logging in control.ctl(5), as explained in the control.log entry of newslog(5). iykyk 👑

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• pathbin/tally.control — the Shell script itself, the one doing the actual tallying up of newsgroup creations and deletions. she's the moment 🫶
• pathlog/control.log — this file maintains a count of the number of newgroup and rmgroup control messages seen for each newsgroup. the count is of the number of control messages with the indicated arguments, regardless if they were actually processed. and fr fr, all control arguments — including invalid ones — are counted. no skipping, no filtering, everyone gets a tally 💀

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. giving credit where credit is due, periodt 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

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and that's the whole page bestie 🍓 this one's from INN 2.7.4, dated 2022-07-10 — vintage but still serving ✨💅