NAME

       innwatch - monitor innd.

SYNOPSIS

       innwatch [ -l logfile ] [ -t seconds ]

DESCRIPTION

       Innwatch is normally started by rc.news.  It periodically — every <innwatchsleeptime in inn.conf> seconds
       —  examines  the  load  average,  and  the  number  of  free blocks and inodes on the spool partition, as
       described by its control file, innwatch.ctl.

       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 in inn.conf>/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
       <pathrun in inn.conf>/innwatch.status.

OPTIONS

       -l logfile
              To specify a log file to watch, other than the default of news.crit, use the ``-l'' flag.

       -t seconds
              To change the period between checks from the default from inn.conf , use the ``-t'' flag.

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>.   This is revision 5909, dated
       2002-12-03.

SEE ALSO

       ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innwatch.ctl(5), shlock(1).

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