NAME

       innwatch - Monitor the state of INN and the system

SYNOPSIS

       innwatch [-f ctlfile] [-i seconds] [-l logfile] [-t seconds]

DESCRIPTION

       innwatch is normally started and stopped by rc.news when doinnwatch is set to true in inn.conf.  Every
       innwatchsleeptime seconds, as set in inn.conf as well as other parameters tuning its behaviour, innwatch
       examines the load average, and the number of free blocks and inodes on the spool partition, as described
       by its control file, innwatch.ctl in pathetc.

       If the load gets too high, or the disk gets too full, it throttles the server.  When the condition
       restores, it unblocks the server.  In addition, on each pass through the loop, it will check the logfile
       pathlog/news.crit to see if it has been modified, and send mail to the news administrator if so.

       Upon receipt of an interrupt signal (SIGINT), innwatch will report its status in the file innwatch.status
       in pathrun.

OPTIONS

       -f file
           Specify the control file to use, other than the default of innwatch.ctl in pathetc.

       -i seconds
           With  this  option, innwatch has an initial sleep of seconds seconds at startup.  This is useful when
           innwatch is started at the same time as INN, so that it can wait a little before beginning performing
           its checks.

       -l logfile
           Specify a log file to watch, other than the default of news.crit.

       -t seconds
           Specify the period in seconds between checks, to override the value set in inn.conf.

HISTORY

       Written by  Mike  Cooper  <mcooper@usc.edu>,  with  modifications  by  <kre@munnari.oz.au>,  Steve  Groom
       <stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> and Christophe Wolfhugel <wolf@pasteur.fr>.  Converted to POD by Julien Elie.

SEE ALSO

       inn.conf(5), innwatch.ctl(5), newslog(5), rc.news(8).

INN 2.7.3                                          2025-05-19                                        INNWATCH(8)