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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News Traffic Generator reports
Message-ID: <560@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 02:14:34 GMT
References: <3989@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <3989@helios.TAMU.EDU> jak9213@helios.TAMU.EDU (John Kane) writes:
>I would like to get a handle on the traffic that my news system is
>handling.

Here's how I do it.  This method includes headers and counts cross-posted
articles only once.  A sys entry records the path of every article we get:

	log:world,all:F:/usr/spool/batch/record/log

Then I run something like this nightly from cron to add up all the bytes:

	(
	# how many bytes of news arrived today?
	cd /usr/spool/batch/record
	mv log.5 log.6
	mv log.4 log.5
	mv log.3 log.4
	mv log.2 log.3
	mv log.1 log.2
	mv log   log.1
	echo -n "`date` "
	xargs ls -l <log.1 | awk '{s+=$4}END{printf("%4s\t%8s\n", NR, s)}'
	) >> meter.log