Changi NNTP Server 1.2

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Shrink, Sort and Syslog

These three programs are tiny utilities, which may not only be useful with Changi.


Shrink

This program can reduce the size of a logfile in a way you would expect a program for reducing the size of a logfile to reduce the size of a logfile.

Unfortunately, Changi doesn't produce any logfiles, but uses a syslog daemon to create them. The Changi package doesn't include a syslog daemon and the one, that is available for OS/2 locks its logfiles, making it impossible for Shrink to reduce their size. Worse, the syslog daemon available for Windows NT doesn't even create any logfile.

That's why most people won't ever use it. Not many of them wonder about its existence, because many do not even know that it exists.

Take it as an act of deviance, that this tool hasn't been removed from the package.


Sort

The Expire program needs a powerful sorting utility while updating the history files. The standard programs delivered with todays non-UNIX operating systems aren't powerfull enough.

To avoid accidentally calling less powerful programs, Expire calls Exsort, the name of which this program has been renamed to.


Syslog

Although not part of the package, you should not hesitate to install this daemon. All programs within the Changi distribution redirect all log messages to a local syslog daemon. If none is installed, you're left in the dark.

Sure, you can call most programs with option -do and force log messages being printed on the console. But remember, that some programs call other programs in the background without passing that option.


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URL: changi/manual/whatssas.html
Created: 21 July 1997
Revised: 21 July 1997
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de