Daily usenet reports. The results of the log summaries are mailed to usenet . They include partition sizes, batch file sizes, summaries of connections and messages transferred and error messages. We run news.daily 3 times. Once to summarize the logs, and twice to do expires.
Mail is sent after each run, but the expire runs give a simple snapshot of the state of usenet.
Checking outgoing NNTP links. The outgoing feeds are handled by nntplinks . The links program is used to report on, and fix the state of nntplinks processes. Check outgoing links, restart if necessary. Shutdown outgoing links.