nestor patch #02 (high priority) Part 01/01

[Edwin Kremer]

In <7152 at male.EBay.Sun.COM> me at anywhere.EBay.Sun.COM (Wayne Thompson) writes:

   | I should get the entire release to find out what it is?
   | Couldn't you give us a hint?
   | 
   | Wayne

Oh yes, with pleasure ;-) It's quite easy to repeat  part  of  my  first
announcement of nestor that appeared in "comp.archives" on May 25, 1991.
The Message-ID was <1991May25.011650.4139 at ox.com>. Here it is...

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Some weeks ago I started to write a small program to nicely process  the
NNTP  news  statistics  --  just  because I needed it. But you know what
sometimes happens if someone else catches a glimpse of it...  they  want
it  too!  Well, after cleaning it up a bit and having a few beta-testers
(thanks guys!) testing it, I decided to make it available to anyone  who
wants to use it. Here it is, hope you like it...


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***************************  INTRODUCTION  *****************************
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  This is  ``nestor'',  a  program  to  summarize  the  copious  logging
information  from the NNTP Usenet News transport agent (for the curious:
"Nestor" is  short  for  "NEws  STatistics  ORganizer").  ``nestor''  is
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

  I got inspired to write this program after I tried out the  "nntp_awk"
script written back in 1986 by Erik E. Fair <fair at ucbarpa.berkeley.edu>,
that comes with the NNTP-1.5 software package. This big awk script  runs
sloooooooooowwwwww.  Lots  of  people  must  have  rewritten that script
since, probably in Perl, Tcl, Gawk, Python or even Cobol :-). Anyway,  I
decided to spend some spare time to do the silly thing in C.

  Some effort has been taken  to  keep  this  program  portable  amongst
various systems. I've tried it on many architectures like HP9000, Sun-3,
DEC5500, Silicon Graphics IRIS, Harris HCX-9 and Amiga-3000UX.
  In order to use this package, you should configure the NNTP daemon  as
well as NNTPXMIT to use syslog __and__ to do statistics logging.
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			best regards,
						--[ Edwin ]--
-- 
Edwin Kremer, systems and network administrator.  [NIC-Whois handle: EHK3]
     Department of Computer Science,  Utrecht University,  The Netherlands
     Email: edwin at cs.ruu.nl  | UUCP to: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin