log(5)

NAME
log - news activity logfile

DESCRIPTION

The /usr/lib/news/log or /var/adm/news/log file contains a written record of all NEWS system activity. All kinds of things can go wrong with a system that runs NEWS, so it is important to be able to see what happened with incoming and outgoing articles.

By looking in the logfile, a system administrator is able to trace the entire life time of an article; from the moment it came in via UUCP (or Internet) or from the moment it was posted, up to and including the moment the article got expired. All system errors will be written to the errlog file, so the system administrator does not need to watch this file very closely if the system is running OK. However, this file grows very fast, so it should be cleaned up every now and then. That is also the right time to have a close look at the errlog file, after which they can both be removed.

All messages in the log files are from the inews program, unless the message is explicitly prefixed by the name of the program writing the message. Also, all messages are prefixed with a date/time stamp, and, if possible, with the ID of the article that caused the error.

FILES
/usr/lib/news/log or /var/adm/news/log

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