INN: NNRP readership statistics (by domain)

[RS Wood]

When I was running INN on an openSUSE server, news.daily would provide,
among other things, a section showing from which IP addresses posts are
coming from:

NNRP readership statistics:
System Conn Arts Size Groups Post .... etc.

NNRP total resource statistics [Top 20]

Curious NNRP explorers .... etc.

I've since moved my system onto FreeBSD 9, and the news.daily report
doesn't include that information. I've grepped around the
/usr/local/news/bin scripts to find the word NNRP or curious and nothing
turns up. Is this an issue of something not being configured to log
NNRP connections? Is it FreeBSD's choice to use a smaller news.daily
script? Or is it something else?

[John F. Morse]

Look through /etc/news/innreport.conf to see if you are skipping the
section for nnrpd.

(Above path for Linux, but probably easy to convert for BSD.)


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[RS Wood]

On 02/28/2012 09:41 PM, John F. Morse wrote:

>>
>> I've since moved my system onto FreeBSD 9, and the news.daily report
>> doesn't include that information. I've grepped around the
>> /usr/local/news/bin scripts to find the word NNRP or curious and nothing
>> turns up. Is this an issue of something not being configured to log
>> NNRP connections? Is it FreeBSD's choice to use a smaller news.daily
>> script? Or is it something else?
>
> Look through /etc/news/innreport.conf to see if you are skipping the
> section for nnrpd.
>
> (Above path for Linux, but probably easy to convert for BSD.)
>

Amazingly, I'm still trying to track this down - just thought I'd write
in with an update. Thanks for the tip, John. (on FreeBSD it's
/usr/local/news/etc/ by the way). I've been going through the perl
scripts and the config files for innreport, innstat, and newsdaily. I
also modified logging on inn.conf, and I realized the etc/syslog.conf
had three entries for INN commented out (news.critical, news.error,
something else) so I uncommented them and restarted INN (perhaps I have
to restart syslog too - I'll have to check on that).

Still hunting - I'm thinking it has something to do with nnrpd not
being requested to log. If I find anything I'll write back in. Happy
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[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi RS Wood,

>> Look through /etc/news/innreport.conf to see if you are skipping the
>> section for nnrpd.
>

> I realized the etc/syslog.conf
> had three entries for INN commented out (news.critical, news.error,
> something else) so I uncommented them and restarted INN (perhaps I have
> to restart syslog too - I'll have to check on that).
>
> Still hunting - I'm thinking it has something to do with nnrpd not
> being requested to log. If I find anything I'll write back in.

Is your issue now solved?
Are NNRP readership statistics showing well in your daily reports?

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[RS Wood]

On 2012-06-10, Julien ÉLIE <iul...@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
> Hi RS Wood,
>
>>> Look through /etc/news/innreport.conf to see if you are skipping the
>>> section for nnrpd.
>>
>> I realized the etc/syslog.conf
>> had three entries for INN commented out (news.critical, news.error,
>> something else) so I uncommented them and restarted INN (perhaps I have
>> to restart syslog too - I'll have to check on that).
>>
>> Still hunting - I'm thinking it has something to do with nnrpd not
>> being requested to log. If I find anything I'll write back in.
>
> Is your issue now solved?
> Are NNRP readership statistics showing well in your daily reports?
>

How nice of you to check back in! Actually, they're not, and I ran out
of ideas. That made me think I'm probably swimming in the deeper end of
the pool than I should be, and I've been looking for a consultant to do
a few hours' work on my server on behalf. Why not work with the pros?

I'm actually embarrassed to be stumped like this, but even perusing the
code for innreport, inncheck, innstat, and syslog bore no fruit.

Anyway, except for that, the news server at news://dictatorshandbook.net
is running great and I'm really happy with it.

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi RS Wood,

>>> Still hunting - I'm thinking it has something to do with nnrpd not
>>> being requested to log. If I find anything I'll write back in.
>>
>> Is your issue now solved?
>> Are NNRP readership statistics showing well in your daily reports?
>
> How nice of you to check back in! Actually, they're not, and I ran out
> of ideas.

In case it could help, here is what I have for the "NNRP readership
statistics" section in my innreport.conf file:

section nnrpd_groups {
title "NNRP readership statistics:";
data "%nnrpd_connect";
sort "$nnrpd_articles{$b} <=> $nnrpd_articles{$a}";
numbering true;
column {
name "System";
format "%-30.30s";
value "$key";
format_total "TOTAL: %-23.23s";
total "$num";
};
column {
name "Conn";
format_name "%4s";
format "%4d";
value "$nnrpd_connect{$key}";
total "total(%nnrpd_connect)";
};
column {
name "Arts";
format_name "%6s";
format "%6d";
value "$nnrpd_articles{$key}";
total "total(%nnrpd_articles)";
};
column {
name "Size";
format "%9s";
value "bytes($nnrpd_bytes{$key})";
total "bytes(total(%nnrpd_bytes))";
};
column {
name "Groups";
format_name "%6s";
format "%6d";
value "$nnrpd_groups{$key}";
total "total(%nnrpd_groups)";
};
column {
name "Post";
format_name "%4s";
format "%4d";
value "$nnrpd_post_ok{$key}";
total "total(%nnrpd_post_ok)";
};
column {
name "Rej";
format_name "%4s";
format "%4d";
value "($nnrpd_post_rej{$key}||0) +
($nnrpd_post_error{$key}||0)";
total "total(%nnrpd_post_rej) +
total(%nnrpd_post_error)";
};
column {
name "Elapsed";
format "%9s";
value "time($nnrpd_times{$key})";
total "time(total(%nnrpd_times))";
};
};




In your news.notice file, you should have lines like:

Jun 18 20:30:53 news nnrpd[31576]: lab.ged.msu.edu exit articles 3 groups 2
or
Jun 18 20:35:07 news nnrpd[31812]: ool-45753f2e.dyn.optonline.net exit for STARTTLS articles 3 groups 3


Don't you see such "exit" lines?


It would normally generate the section your are looking for.

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[RS Wood]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:31:41 +0200
Julien ÉLIE <iul...@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi RS Wood,
>
> >>> Still hunting - I'm thinking it has something to do with nnrpd
> >>> not being requested to log. If I find anything I'll write back
> >>> in.

> In your news.notice file, you should have lines like:

<snip>

> Don't you see such "exit" lines?
> It would normally generate the section your are looking for.
>

Ha ha - I got it! The culprit wasn't INN, it was syslogd. I looked
again at /etc/syslog.conf and where it said "if you're running INN,
uncomment the next three lines" I re-edited them. I believe
syslog.conf is a whitespace-sensitive file, and the lines pertaining to
INN now had three spaces at the beginning of them, like this:
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
etc.

I removed that whitespace, and restarted syslogd with kill -HUP.
syslogd restarted, I tested by posting a few articles and doing a
news.daily and I now have what I was looking for.

Many thanks for the tips and encouragement, everybody. I'm very happy
to have this fixed, and I learned something too - always a good thing.