Ubuntu Manpage: innreport.conf - Configuration file for innreport

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NAME

       innreport.conf - Configuration file for innreport

DESCRIPTION

The file pathetc/innreport.conf permits configuring the behaviour of innreport. It consists of a series
of lines; blank lines and what follows a number sign ("#") in a line are ignored. The structure of this
file is:

section default {
libpath "/path/to/libraries";
logpath "/path/to/logs";
module "innreport_inn";
display_conf_file "innreport-display.conf";
unwanted_log "unwanted.log";
text true;
html true; # Enable HTML reports.
# Other options to set.
};

Only this default section needs being configured. It begins with "section default {" and ends with "};".
Each line in the section consists of an option name followed with one or more spaces or tabulations, its
value and a semi-colon ";".

The display_conf_file option defines the name of the display configuration file to use. This file,
located in libpath, has the same syntax as innreport.conf. If you want to use a custom display
configuration, just rename the default innreport-display.conf file to another name, and set it in
display_conf_file (otherwise, innreport-display.conf will be overwritten each time you update INN).

Sections defined in the display configuration file are used to parameterize the display, how and what to
report, but should not normally be changed (unless you precisely know what you are doing). These
sections are written in a domain-specific language not intended to be modified (you may break the
reports, especially if changing data, double, format, primary, sort, total or value parameters). The
easiest parameters to change, if needed, would be:

• title (the titles of sections in innreport),

• name (the names of the columns),

• color (the color of curves in the graphs),

• numbering (a boolean value to configure whether each row of HTML reports is prefixed with a rank
number),

• text, html, and skip (boolean values to configure whether a given section should be present in
respectively text, HTML or both reports),

• top (the maximum number of values to display); you can specify different values for text and HTML
reports with top_text and top_html.

OPTIONS

The following options can be set in the default section of the general configuration file innreport.conf:

archive
Sets whether HTML pages and graphs should be archived if HTML reports are enabled. When this option
is set to "true", which is the default, a date will be added in the file name of each report and each
graph. Otherwise, only the latest HTML report is kept.

Use of the -[no]archive flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

casesensitive
When this option is set to "true", which is the default, case sensitive searches are done in news log
files for predetermined patterns.

Use of the -[no]casesensitive flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

cycle
Sets how many report files should be kept if HTML reports are enabled and archived. The default is
"0", meaning all archives are kept. The value "none" also means "0".

Use of the -cycle flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

display_conf_file
Defines the display configuration file to use, located in the directory set with the libpath option.
The default is "innreport-display.conf".

encoding
Specifies the character set to use in XML and Content-Type declarations of HTML reports. The default
is "ISO-8859-1".

footer
Specifies a text to append to the end of the latest "<div>" tag of each HTML report, where the
version of innreport is displayed. This option is unset by default.

graph
If the Perl graphic library GD.pm is installed and HTML reports are enabled, graphs are also
generated in PNG if supported by "GD", which is the case in modern versions (GIF will otherwise be
generated). This option is set to "true" by default, meaning to enable graph generation.

Use of the -[no]graph flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

graph_bg
Specifies the background colour of graphs in HTML reports as an HTML hexadecimal colour value. The
default is "#FFFFFF" (white).

graph_fg
Specifies the foreground colour of graphs in HTML reports as an HTML hexadecimal colour value. The
default is "#000000" (black).

graph_width
Sets the width in pixels of graphs in HTML reports. The default is "550".

html
This is a mandatory option with no default value. It serves two purposes: generating HTML reports
besides the plain text report printed to standard output, and configuring in the sections other than
default (in the display configuration file) whether a section of the report should be present in the
HTML output.

If set to "true", and the -nohtml flag not given when calling innreport, HTML reports will be
generated. These reports will not contain sections individually having html set to "false" in the
display configuration file (by default, everything is present in the HTML reports). Otherwise, if
the -nohtml flag is given, no HTML reports will be generated.

If set to "false", and the -html flag not given when calling innreport, no HTML reports will be
generated. Otherwise, if the -html flag is given, HTML reports will be generated but only the
sections individually having html set to "true" in the display configuration file will be present in
the reports.

html_body
Specifies additional elements to append to the "<body>" tag of HTML reports. This option is unset by
default.

Note that using this option leads to invalid XHTML. You should provide a custom CSS file with the
html_css_url option instead.

html_css_url
Specifies the name of a CSS file to use to apply a custom style to HTML reports. The file is located
in the directory set with the html_dir option. It may also be a URL, in which case the file may be
in another location.

If unset, which is the default, innreport creates a default innreport.css custom style sheet in
html_dir and uses it for HTML reports.

In case you wish to supply your own style, take a look at what is defined in the default CSS and the
HTML reports, and adapt it for your needs. Across several innreport releases that may change
classes, make sure to keep old class definitions for backward compatibility with previously generated
HTML reports still referring to that custom file.

html_dir
Sets the directory for web pages if HTML reports are enabled. The default is the value of pathhttp
as set in inn.conf.

Use of the -dir flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

html_file_extension
Defines the file extension of generated HTML reports, if enabled. A dot (".") should begin the
extension. The default is ".html".

You may want to use ".xhtml" instead to let the web server serve correct MIME type, as innreport
generates XHTML 1.1 pages.

html_footer_file
Specifies the name of a file in html_dir whose contents will be appended just before the "</body>"
tag of each HTML report. This option is unset by default.

html_header_file
Specifies the name of a file in html_dir whose contents will be appended just after the "<body>" tag
of each HTML report. This option is unset by default.

html-unknown
Whether to report unknown entries from news log files in HTML reports, when set to "true". This
option takes by default the same value as the one for text plain reports (as set with the unknown
option).

Use of the -[no]html-unknown flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

html_xsl_url
Specifies the name of an XSL file to use to apply styling operations to HTML reports. The file is
located in the directory set with the html_dir option. It may also be a URL, in which case the file
may be in another location.

This option is unset by default. When set, a corresponding XML style sheet declaration is added to
HTML reports. It may be useful for XHTML compliance with older browsers (see
<https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie>).

More generally, if you are interested in XSL transformation, you may want to have a look at
innreport-filter.xslt provided in the contrib directory.

img_dir
Sets the web path for pictures in HTML pages if HTML reports are enabled, and graphs are wanted. The
path is relative to the directory set with the html_dir option. The default is "pics".

Use of the -webpath flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

index
Sets the name of the index web page if HTML reports are enabled. The default is "index.html".

You may want to use "index.xhtml" instead to let the web server serve correct MIME type, as innreport
generates XHTML 1.1 pages.

Use of the -index flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

libpath
Defines the directory in which the Perl module set with the module option is located. This option is
mandatory, and usually set to the same value as pathlib in inn.conf.

logpath
Defines the directory in which the log file for newsgroups not locally carried by the news server, as
set with the unwanted_log option, is located. This option is mandatory, and usually set to the same
value as pathlog in inn.conf.

max_unknown
How many unrecognized entries from news log files to report, when the unknown or html-unknown options
are set. The default is "50". Using "-1" means there is no limit.

Use of the -maxunrec flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

module
Defines the Perl module used by innreport to parse and summarize log files. This option is
mandatory, and usually set to "innreport_inn". This value should not normally be changed unless you
know exactly what you are doing. The Perl module that will be loaded is module.pm located in the
directory set with the libpath option.

separator
Sets the separator between hours, minutes and seconds in file names if HTML reports are enabled and
archived. The default is "." as ":" may not be properly read by all web browsers. Be careful not to
use "/" as a separator, and to use only a valid file name character.

Use of the -separator flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

text
This is a mandatory option with no default value.

If set to "true", innreport will print its text report to standard output. This report will not
contain sections individually having text set to "false" in the display configuration file (by
default, everything is present in the text report).

If set to "false", innreport will only print to standard output the sections individually having text
set to "true" in the display configuration file (by default, the text report will be empty).

title
Specifies the text to use as first words of text and HTML reports as well as in the title of HTML
reports. By default, "Daily Usenet report" is used.

transparent
If set to "true", the background of generated graphs in HTML reports will be transparent. The
default is "false".

unknown
Whether to report unknown entries from news log files in plain text reports, when set to "true".
This option is enabled by default.

Use of the -[no]unknown flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

unwanted_log
Defines the name of the file used by innreport to maintain a count of the number of articles that
were rejected because they were posted to newsgroups that do not exist in the active file of the news
server. This file is updated by innreport while processing the news.notice log file and it is
maintained in reverse numeric order (the most popular rejected group first).

This option is mandatory, and usually set to "unwanted.log". This value should not normally be
changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. The file is located in the directory set with
the logpath option.

Note that logtrash has to be set to true in inn.conf for this file to be generated.

HISTORY

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