newsadm(5)

NAME
news.adm - news accounting database

DESCRIPTION

will contain the accounting records of the NEWS system. A record is a line of ASCII text, formatted as follows:

yy/MM/dd<SPC>hh:mm<TAB>type<TAB>dist<TAB>size<TAB>host

In this definition, the first field forms the date and time the record was created. The second field indicates the type of accounting record. It can either be sent or recv , meaning "I sent this article" and "I received this article" respectively. The third field is the value of the Distribution: article header field. It is needed because it may be the case that not all types of distributions are equally expensive. The fourth field is the ASCII representation of the article size in bytes. Finally, the last field is a list of host names. If it is a sent record, then it this field indicates to which systems the article was also relayed. Otherwise, it indicates from which host the article was received.

A sample accounting file might look like this:

 91/02/01 10:00  rcvd    world   1168    nmrdc1
 91/02/01 10:00  sent    world   1168    drinkel pa3ebv uwalt
 91/02/01 23:16  rcvd    world   740     pa3ebv
 91/02/01 23:16  sent    world   740     nmrdc1 drinkel uwalt
 91/02/02 01:40  rcvd    nl      44245   uwalt
 91/02/02 01:40  sent    nl      44245   nmrdc1 drinkel pa3ebv
 91/02/02 01:40  rcvd    nl      44249   uwalt
 91/02/02 01:40  sent    nl      44249   drinkel pa3ebv
 91/02/02 01:40  rcvd    nl      37390   uwalt
 91/02/02 01:40  sent    nl      37390   drinkel pa3ebv
 91/02/03 23:55  rcvd    world   791     wiesje
 91/02/03 23:55  sent    world   791     nmrdc1 drinkel pa3ebv
 91/02/06 04:30  rcvd    nl      1644    drinkel
 91/02/06 04:30  sent    nl      1644    pa3ebv uwalt

Note, that this feature is relatively expensive in terms of both disk space usage and CPU cycle demand. Use it only when you have to... SH FILES
/usr/lib/news/news.adm or /var/adm/news/news.adm

AUTHOR
Fred N. van Kempen, waltje@Infomagic.COM