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From: skunz@iastate.edu (Kunz Steven L)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP news monitor
Keywords: NNTP, news, arbitron
Message-ID: <skunz.667233996@grafix.cc.iastate.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 14:46:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.063725.26321@qualcomm.com>
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In <1991Feb22.063725.26321@qualcomm.com> jbeckley@qualcomm.com (Gumby) writes:

>I'm looking for a program that monitors news usage via NNTP.  I've seen
>the program arbitron, but that only takes a snapshot on one machine.
>The news system we have set up is highly distributed over 30 clients, each
>using NNTP to connect to the server.  My question then is, does anyone
>know of any programs that can trace news usage by monitoring NNTP?  It would
>most likely be in a patch to inews.

The program you want is already distributed with nntp.  Look in the "support"
subdirectory for the "nntp_awk" file.  Use this by putting a line in your
"newsdaily" script as follows:

	# note: assumption made you are cd'd to directory with nntplog and
        #       nnto_awk script in it.
	rm -f nntplog.o
	mv nntplog nntplog.o && >nntplog
	awk -f nntp_awk nntplog.o | mail <your mail-id>

Note that you must have built nntp with logging on (look in the config files)
so that a file like "nntplog" is actually kept.  The above  will mail you the 
daily report you want.

Steve Kunz --   Usenet News Administrator
		Iowa State University Computation Center
		Ames, IA
		skunz@iastate.edu


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