Xref: utzoo comp.sources.bugs:2955 news.software.nntp:1401 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!edwin From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: nestor patch #02 (high priority) Part 01/01 Summary: here the introduction posting again... Message-ID: <1991Jun17.113348.22108@cs.ruu.nl> Date: 17 Jun 91 11:33:48 GMT References: <1991Jun12.100836.25551@cs.ruu.nl> <7152@male.EBay.Sun.COM> Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 48 In <7152@male.EBay.Sun.COM> me@anywhere.EBay.Sun.COM (Wayne Thompson) writes: | I should get the entire release to find out what it is? | Couldn't you give us a hint? | | Wayne Oh yes, with pleasure ;-) It's quite easy to repeat part of my first announcement of nestor that appeared in "comp.archives" on May 25, 1991. The Message-ID was <1991May25.011650.4139@ox.com>. Here it is... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************************** INTRODUCTION ***************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 , 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ best regards, --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer, systems and network administrator. [NIC-Whois handle: EHK3] Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl | UUCP to: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin