edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (05/24/91)
Some weeks ago I started to write a small program to nicely process the
NNTP news statistics -- just because I needed it. But you know what
sometimes happens if someone else catches a glimpse of it... they want
it too! Well, after cleaning it up a bit and having a few beta-testers
(thanks guys!) testing it, I decided to make it available to anyone who
wants to use it. Here it is, hope you like it...
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*************************** INTRODUCTION *****************************
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This is ``nestor'', a program to summarize the copious logging
information from the NNTP Usenet News transport agent (for the curious:
"Nestor" is short for "NEws STatistics ORganizer"). ``nestor'' is
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
I got inspired to write this program after I tried out the "nntp_awk"
script written back in 1986 by Erik E. Fair <fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu>,
that comes with the NNTP-1.5 software package. This big awk script runs
sloooooooooowwwwww. Lots of people must have rewritten that script
since, probably in Perl, Tcl, Gawk, Python or even Cobol :-). Anyway, I
decided to spend some spare time to do the silly thing in C.
Some effort has been taken to keep this program portable amongst
various systems. I've tried it on many architectures like HP9000, Sun-3,
DEC5500, Silicon Graphics IRIS, Harris HCX-9 and Amiga-3000UX.
In order to use this package, you should configure the NNTP daemon as
well as NNTPXMIT to use syslog __and__ to do statistics logging.
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********************** HOW TO GET THIS PROGRAM ***********************
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We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an
anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. In addition to the FTP
service we're also running a mail server, because we *know* how you feel
when there's plenty of beautiful software around that you can't reach.
We've been in that situation for a long long time...
--> How to get 'nestor' via anonymous FTP:
Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
Login: "anonymous" or "ftp"
Password: your own email address (you@your_domain)
File: UNIX/nestor.tar.Z
--> How to get 'nestor' via e-mail from our mail-server:
NOTE: In the following I have assumed that your mail address is
"fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu"; of course you must substitute
your own address for this.
** PLEASE USE VALID DOMAIN ADDRESSES. DO NOT USE ADDRESSES **
** WITH ! and @ MIXED !!!! BITNETTERS USE USER@HOST.BITNET **
Send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl
or the old-fashioned path alternative
uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server
begin
path fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu (SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
send UNIX/nestor.tar.Z
end
The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your
message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you
first issue the request:
send HELP
A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the top-level
directory, it will be updated every night. To get it, issue the command:
send ls-lR.Z
That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service
and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please).
--[ Edwin ]--
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Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin
Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]sfreed@ariel.unm.edu (Steven Freed CIRT) (05/25/91)
In article <1991May23.180835.28659@cs.ruu.nl>, edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) writes: > --> How to get 'nestor' via anonymous FTP: > Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] So our over-seas friends don't get killed from the US, this is now also available from: Site: ariel.unm.edu Login: "anonymous" or "ftp" Password: your own email address (you@your_domain) File: pub/nestor.tar.Z -- Steve. sfreed@ariel.unm.edu