newsgroup usage

[Donald Roeber]

On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:02 AM, Praveen Ramaswamy wrote:

> How Do I know usage of a newsgroup...Like a news group is used or not, 
> when
> it was last accessed.
>

We keep track of postings in a few hierarchies with this simple command:

egrep '^(upenn|list)' /usr/local/news/db/active | awk '{print $1, $2}' 
| sort | gzip 
 >/usr/local/news/local/etc/cron_stats/newsgroups/group-usage.`date 
+\%Y-\%m-\%d`.gz

Hopefully that'll be useful to you.

-- 
Donald Roeber
ISC Networking