can we have a quiet news.daily?

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi,

I'd prefer my Daily Usenet report to be quiet, only emailing me if
there's something I need to attend to. Documentation for the 'nomail'
keyword to news.daily suggests that this should be possible: "...all
utilities ... have their stdout and stderr redirected into a file. If
the file is empty, no message is sent." Alas, even when not generating a
text report, innreport will always print a heading with the date,
scanlogs will add a few separating lines, and news.daily adds yet
another newline.

What I'd like to suggest is making innreport's heading depend on the
value of {default}{text} (as set in innreport.conf), have scanlogs look
for innreport output before printing the separators, and move the
news.daily newline to scanlogs.

what do you think?

Florian

--- a/scripts/innreport.in
+++ b/scripts/innreport.in
@@ -2073,7 +2073,8 @@ sub Write_all_results {
     $Title =~ s/\&/&/go;
     $Title =~ s/\</</go;
     $Title =~ s/\>/>/go;
-    print "$Title from $first_date to $last_date\n\n";
+    print "$Title from $first_date to $last_date\n\n"
+	if $$h{'default'}{'text'} =~ m/^true$/i;
   }
 
   if ($HTML) {
--- a/scripts/news.daily.in
+++ b/scripts/news.daily.in
@@ -279,7 +279,6 @@ if [ -n "${PROGRAMS}" ] ; then
 fi
 
 ${DOLOGS} && {
-    echo ''
     scanlogs ${SCANARG}
 }
 
--- a/scripts/scanlogs.in
+++ b/scripts/scanlogs.in
@@ -238,12 +238,17 @@ OLD_LOG=${OLD}/${BASE}.0
 ##  and summarize syslog information.
 BASE=`basename ${SYSLOG_NOTICE}`
 OLD_SYSLOG=${OLD}/${BASE}.0
+INNREPORT=${TMPDIR}/innreport$$
 if [ -s ${OLD_SYSLOG} -o -s ${OLD_LOG} ] ; then
-    ${PATHBIN}/innreport -f ${PATHETC}/innreport.conf ${OLD_SYSLOG} ${OLD_LOG}
-    echo ---------
-    echo ''
+    ${PATHBIN}/innreport -f ${PATHETC}/innreport.conf ${OLD_SYSLOG} ${OLD_LOG} > ${INNREPORT}
+    if [ -s ${INNREPORT} ] ; then
+        echo ''
+        cat ${INNREPORT}
+        echo ---------
+        echo ''
+    fi
 fi
-rm -f ${OLD_LOG} ${OLD_SYSLOG}
+rm -f ${OLD_LOG} ${OLD_SYSLOG} ${INNREPORT}
 
 OLD_SYSLOG=${OLD}/${EXPLOG}.0
 rm -f ${EXPLOG}