NAME

DESCRIPTION

    section default {
        libpath        "/path/to/libraries";
        logpath        "/path/to/logs";
        module         "innreport_inn";
        unwanted_log   "unwanted.log";
        text           true;
        html           true;  # Enable HTML reports.
        # Other options to set.
    };

Only this very section needs being configured. It begins with "section default {" and ends with "};". Each line in the section consists of an option name followed with one or more spaces or tabulations, its value and a semi-colon ";".

Other sections are present in the configuration file to parameter the display, how and what to report, but should not be changed (unless you precisely know what you are doing). These sections are written in a domain-specific language not intended to be changed (you may break the reports, especially if changing data, double, format, primary, sort, total or value parameters). The easiest parameters to change, if needed, would be title (the titles of sections in innreport), name (the names of the columns), color (the color of curves in the graphs), numbering (a boolean value to configure whether each row of HTML reports is prefixed with a rank number), text (a boolean to configure whether a given section should be present in text reports), html (same thing for HTML reports), skip (same thing for both reports), and top (the maximum number of values to display, and you can specify different values for text and HTML reports with top_text and top_html).

OPTIONS

archive

Sets whether HTML pages and graphs should be archived if HTML reports are enabled. When this option is set to "true", which is the default, a date will be added in the file name of each report and each graph. Otherwise, only the latest HTML report is kept.

Use of the -[no]archive flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

casesensitive

When this option is set to "true", which is the default, case sensitive searches are done in news log files for predetermined patterns.

Use of the -[no]casesensitive flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

cycle

Sets how many report files should be kept if HTML reports are enabled and archived. The default is 0, meaning all archives are kept. The value "none" also means 0.

Use of the -cycle flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

encoding

Specifies the character set to use in XML and Content-Type declarations of HTML reports. The default is "ISO-8859-1".

footer

Specifies a text to append to the end of the latest "<div>" tag of each HTML report, where the version of innreport is displayed. This option is unset by default.

graph

If the Perl graphic library GD.pm is installed and HTML reports are enabled, graphs are also generated in PNG if supported by "GD", which is the case in modern versions (GIF will otherwise be generated). This option is set to "true" by default, meaning to enable graph generation.

Use of the -[no]graph flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

graph_bg

Specifies the background colour of graphs in HTML reports as an HTML hexadecimal colour value. The default is "#FFFFFF" (white).

graph_fg

Specifies the foreground colour of graphs in HTML reports as an HTML hexadecimal colour value. The default is "#000000" (black).

graph_width

Sets the width in pixels of graphs in HTML reports. The default is 550.

html

This is a mandatory option with no default value. It serves two purposes: generating HTML reports besides the plain text report printed to standard output, and configuring in the sections other than "default" in the configuration file whether a section of the report should be present in the HTML output.

If set to "true", and the -nohtml flag not given when calling innreport, HTML reports will be generated. These reports will not contain sections individually having html set to "false" in the configuration file (by default, everything is present in the HTML reports). Otherwise, if the -nohtml flag is given, no HTML reports will be generated.

If set to "false", and the -html flag not given when calling innreport, no HTML reports will be generated. Otherwise, if the -html flag is given, HTML reports will be generated but only the sections individually having html set to "true" in the configuration file will be present in the reports.

html_body

Specifies additional elements to append to the "<body>" tag of HTML reports. This option is unset by default.

Note that using this option leads to invalid XHTML. You should provide a custom CSS file with the html_css_url option instead.

html_css_url

Specifies the name of a CSS file to use to apply a custom style to HTML reports. The file is located in the directory set with the html_dir option. It may also be a URL, in which case the file may be in another location.

If unset, which is the default, innreport creates a default innreport.css custom style sheet in html_dir and uses it for HTML reports.

In case you wish to supply your own style, take a look at what is defined in the default CSS and the HTML reports, and adapt it for your needs. Across several innreport releases that may change classes, make sure to keep old class definitions for backward compatibility with previously generated HTML reports still referring to that custom file.

html_dir

Sets the directory for web pages if HTML reports are enabled. The default is the value of pathhttp as set in inn.conf.

Use of the -dir flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

html_file_extension

Defines the file extension of generated HTML reports, if enabled. A dot (".") should begin the extension. The default is ".html".

You may want to use ".xhtml" instead to let the web server serve correct MIME type, as innreport generates XHTML 1.1 pages.

html_footer_file

Specifies the name of a file in html_dir whose contents will be appended just before the "</body>" tag of each HTML report. This option is unset by default.

html_header_file

Specifies the name of a file in html_dir whose contents will be appended just after the "<body>" tag of each HTML report. This option is unset by default.

html-unknown

Whether to report unknown entries from news log files in HTML reports, when set to "true". This option takes by default the same value as the one for text plain reports (as set with the unknown option).

Use of the -[no]html-unknown flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

html_xsl_url

Specifies the name of an XSL file to use to apply styling operations to HTML reports. The file is located in the directory set with the html_dir option. It may also be a URL, in which case the file may be in another location.

This option is unset by default. When set, a corresponding XML style sheet declaration is added to HTML reports. It may be useful for XHTML compliance with older browsers (see <https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie>).

More generally, if you are interested in XSL transformation, you may want to have a look at innreport-filter.xslt provided in the contrib directory.

img_dir

Sets the web path for pictures in HTML pages if HTML reports are enabled, and graphs are wanted. The path is relative to the directory set with the html_dir option. The default is "pics".

Use of the -webpath flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

index

Sets the name of the index web page if HTML reports are enabled. The default is "index.html".

You may want to use "index.xhtml" instead to let the web server serve correct MIME type, as innreport generates XHTML 1.1 pages.

Use of the -index flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

libpath

Defines the directory in which the Perl module set with the module option is located. This option is mandatory, and usually set to the same value as pathlib in inn.conf.

logpath

Defines the directory in which the log file for newsgroups not locally carried by the news server, as set with the unwanted_log option, is located. This option is mandatory, and usually set to the same value as pathlog in inn.conf.

max_unknown

How many unrecognized entries from news log files to report, when the unknown or html-unknown options are set. The default is 50. Using "-1" means there is no limit.

Use of the -maxunrec flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

module

Defines the Perl module used by innreport to parse and summarize log files. This option is mandatory, and usually set to "innreport_inn". This value should not normally be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. The Perl module that will be loaded is module.pm located in the directory set with the libpath option.

separator

Sets the separator between hours, minutes and seconds in file names if HTML reports are enabled and archived. The default is "." as ":" may not be properly read by all web browsers. Be careful not to use "/" as a separator, and to use only a valid file name character.

Use of the -separator flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

text

This is a mandatory option with no default value.

If set to "true", innreport will print its text report to standard output. This report will not contain sections individually having text set to "false" in the configuration file (by default, everything is present in the text report).

If set to "false", innreport will only print to standard output the sections individually having text set to "true" in the configuration file (by default, the text report will be empty).

title

Specifies the text to use as first words of text and HTML reports as well as in the title of HTML reports. By default, "Daily Usenet report" is used.

transparent

If set to "true", the background of generated graphs in HTML reports will be transparent. The default is "false".

unknown

Whether to report unknown entries from news log files in plain text reports, when set to "true". This option is enabled by default.

Use of the -[no]unknown flag with innreport(8) takes precedence over the configuration file.

unwanted_log

Defines the name of the file used by innreport to maintain a count of the number of articles that were rejected because they were posted to newsgroups that do not exist in the active file of the news server. This file is updated by innreport while processing the news.notice log file and it is maintained in reverse numeric order (the most popular rejected group first).

This option is mandatory, and usually set to "unwanted.log". This value should not normally be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing. The file is located in the directory set with the logpath option.

Note that logtrash has to be set to true in inn.conf for this file to be generated.

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