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sendinpaths [-cdhn] [-k keep-days] [-r report-days] [address [address ...]]
sendinpaths checks pathlog/path for ninpaths dump files, finds dump files generated in the past report-days days, makes sure they are valid by running ninpaths on each one and making sure the exit status is zero, and passes them to ninpaths to generate a cumulative report. By default, that report is mailed to the e-mail addresses configured at the beginning of this script (by default, only one address is configured: <top1000@anthologeek.net>) in order to supply the TOP1000 project with useful statistics. See <http://top1000.anthologeek.net/> for more information.
When finished, sendinpaths deletes all dump files in pathlog/path that are older than keep-days days.
For more information on how to set up ninpaths, see ninpaths(8).
When this flag is used, the report is also e-mailed, besides the default submission addresses or those given as command-line arguments, to the newsmaster's address set at configure time.
Enables debug messages.
Gives usage information.
After having processed dump files, sendinpaths removes those that are
older than keep-days days. The default is 0
, that is to say to
remove all dump files.
Setting keep-days to another value can be useful for debugging purpose because it permits keeping a few dump files.
Don't e-mail the report; instead, just print it to standard output. Don't delete old dump files.
Process dump files generated during the last report-days days.
The default is 32
, that is to say to process all the dump files that
have been generated during the last 32 days (if, of course, they have
not been deleted yet by a previous run of sendinpaths according to the
value set by the -k flag).
E-mail the report to the mentioned address or addresses, instead of the default one. Several addresses can be used, separated by whitespace (sending the e-mail to your own e-mail address can be useful for debugging purpose, to check that everything works fine). For instance, for two addresses:
sendinpaths pathsurvey@example.org top1000@anthologeek.net
sendinpaths was written by Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>.
ninpaths(8).
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