NAME

       innwatch - Monitor the state of INN and the system

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, as set in inn.conf as well as 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.

       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.

       Upon receipt of an interrupt signal (SIGINT), innwatch will report its status in the file
       innwatch.status in pathrun.

OPTIONS

       -f file
           Specify the control file to use, other than the default of innwatch.ctl in pathetc.

       -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.

       -l logfile
           Specify a log file to watch, other than the default of news.crit.

       -t seconds
           Specify the period in seconds between checks, to override the value set in inn.conf.

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>.  Converted to
       POD by Julien Elie.

SEE ALSO

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