NAME

       scanlogs - Summarize and rotate INN log files

SYNOPSIS

       scanlogs [norotate]

DESCRIPTION

       scanlogs summarizes the information recorded in the INN log files which reside in the
       pathlog directory set in inn.conf (see newslog(5) for further details about these log
       files).  It is normally invoked by the news.daily(8) script which performs daily server
       maintenance tasks.

       It invokes "ctlinnd flushlogs" to close the news and error log files, rename them to add
       ".old" to the file names and open fresh news and error logs; the active file is also
       flushed to disk, along with the history database.

       By default, scanlogs rotates and cleans out the logs.  It keeps up to logcycles old
       compressed log files in pathlog/OLD (the logcycles parameter can be set in inn.conf).
       scanlogs also keeps archives of the active file in this directory.

       It invokes tally.control if newgroup.log or rmgroup.log exists in pathlog (see the
       control.log entry of newslog(5) for more information about that).

       scanlogs displays the first 50 lines of errlog, news.err and news.crit, if non-empty, and
       runs innreport to summarize the contents of news and news.notice, and to update the
       unwanted.log file amongst other things (see more information about that in innreport(8)).

OPTIONS

       Only one option is currently accepted:

       norotate
           Using this option disables the rotating and cleaning aspect of the log processing: the
           logs files are only scanned for information and no contents are altered.  If scanlogs
           is invoked more than once a day, the norotate option should be used to prevent
           premature log cleaning.

FILES

       See newslog(5) for the list of log files processed by scanlogs.

HISTORY

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

SEE ALSO

       inn.conf(5), innreport(8), news.daily(8), newslog(5), shlock(1), tally.control(8).