brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (06/25/91)
I just set this up, and thought it might be of interest to others.
(Well, there's a chance, right? :-) ) If not, you can ignore it.
The program uunewslog below will make syslog generate stats for
UUCP-based news, by logging how many articles are batched on each run
by CNews. (Although I suppose this would work in BNews too, by just
putting the call to the program in the right place.)
It's called as `uunewslog host n-articles'; for example,
uunewslog foonix 19
would log:
..date.. laverne uunews[17469]: foonix stats 19 offered 19 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed
..date.. laverne uunews[17469]: foonix xmit user 0.1 system 0.1 elapsed 60
to the NEWS syslog facility. (This is all assuming that you've
modified your syslog.conf so that the news stats will go somewhere;
mine currently has
news.info ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/newslog, @loghost)
in it.)
[ Before I go any further, let me say that none of this is part of
official CNews; it is nothing more than a hack on my part.]
To make it actually use the program, you have to add a line to the
$NEWSBIN/batch/sendbatches program, as is illustrated in this diff:
-- cut --
*** batch/sendbatches.~1~ Mon Mar 25 13:55:53 1991
--- batch/sendbatches Tue Jun 25 08:38:47 1991
***************
*** 174,179 ****
--- 174,180 ----
fi
done
ndone=`echo $them | wc -w`
+ $NEWSBIN/local/uunewslog $sys $ndone
nbatch=`expr $nbatch - $ndone`
# Recheck the space -- it can fall for other reasons.
-- cut --
And, finally, here's the short program uunewslog to do the logging; I
have it spit out the second line (with the user & system time, and
total # of seconds, using relatively bogus #'s), just because my perl
script that puts together the news reports happens to use that line at
one point for other things. You can take it out if yours doesn't need
xmit stats.
This requires syslog(3) ability; I haven't tried it with the fake syslog
that comes with NNTP. Also, this was built and tested on a Sun Sparc-1
running SunOS 4.1.1; your mileage may vary.
I'd suggest creating a directory called $NEWSBIN/local, and put this
in there. (I also made it owned by news/news, mode 754, just so that
occasional passers-by won't screw up your stats.) If you put it
somewhere else, make sure to compensate when you change sendbatches
above.
-- cut --
/*
* uunews v1.0 - 06/25/91 - by Brendan Kehoe (brendan@cs.widener.edu)
*
* Make normal sendbatches put an entry in the syslog so that what was the
* "NNTP" logging can become the logging of everything newsy.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <syslog.h>
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
if (argc < 3)
{
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s hostname n-articles\n", *argv);
exit(1);
}
openlog("uunews", LOG_PID, LOG_NEWS);
syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s stats %s offered %s accepted 0 rejected 0 failed",
*(argv + 1), *(argv + 2), *(argv + 2));
/* this line isn't really necessary; you can take it out if your
report-maker doesn't have to see the xmit stats */
syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s xmit user 0.1 system 0.1 elapsed 60");
closelog();
}
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