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#!/usr/bin/perl
# @(#)scanspool.pl	1.20 4/6/92 00:47:35
#
# Written by:  Landon Curt Noll		(chongo was here  /\../\)
#
# This code is placed in the public domain.
#
# scanspool - perform a big scan over all articles in /usr/spool/news
#
# usage:
#    scanspool [-a active_file] [-s spool_dir] [-v] [-c] [-n]
#
#    -a active_file	active file to use (default /usr/lib/news/active)
#    -s spool_dir	spool tree (default /usr/spool/news)
#    -v 		verbose mode
#			verbose messages begin with a tab
#			show articles found in non-active directories
#    -c			check article filenames, don't scan the articles
#    -n			don't throttle innd
#
# NOTE: This take a while, -v is a good thing if you want to know
#	how far this program has progressed.
#
# This program will scan first the active file, noting problems such as:
#
#	malformed line
#	group aliased to a non-existent group
#	group aliased to a group tat is also aliased
#
# Then it will examine all articles under your news spool directory,
# looking for articles that:
#
#	basename that starts with a leading 0
#	basename that is out of range with the active file
#	does not contain a Newsgroups: line
#	article that is all header and no text
#	is in a directory for which there is no active group
#	article that is in a group to which it does not belong
#
# Scanspool understands aliased groups.  Thus, if an article is posted
# to foo.old.name that is aliases to foo.bar, it will be expected to
# be found under foo.bar and not foo.old.name.
#
# Any group that is of type 'j' or 'x' (4th field of the active file)
# will be allowed to show up under the junk group.
#
# Scanspool assumes that the path of a valid newsgroup's directory
# from the top of the spool tree will not contain any "." character.
# Thus, directories such as out.going, tmp.dir, in.coming and
# news.archive will not be searched.  This program also assumes that
# article basenames contain only decimal digits.  Last, files under
# the top level directory "lost+found" are not scanned.
#
# The output of scanspool will start with one of 4 forms:
#
#    FATAL: 	    fatal or internal error 			(to stderr)
#
#    WARN: 	    active or article format problem,		(to stderr)
#		    group alias problem, find error,
#		    article open error
#
#    path/123:	    basename starts with 0,			(to stdout)
#		    article number out of range,
#		    article in the wrong directory,
#		    article in directory not related to
#		        an active non-aliases newsgroup
#
#    \t ...	    verbose message starting with a tab		(to stdout)


# Data structures
#
# $gname2type{$name}
#    $name	- newsgroup name in foo.dot.form
#    produces  => 4th active field  (y, n, x, ...)
#		  alias type is "=", not "=foo.bar"
#
# $realgname{$name}
#    $name      - newsgroup name in foo.dot.form
#    produces  => newsgroup name in foo.dot.form
#		  if type is =, this will be a.b, not $name
#
# $lowart{$name}
#    $name      - newsgroup name in foo.dot.form
#    produces  => lowest article allowed in the group
#		  if type is =, this is not valid
#
# $highart{$name}
#    $name      - newsgroup name in foo.dot.form
#    produces  => highest article allowed in the group
#		  if type is =, this is not valid
#		  If $highart{$name} < $lowart{$name},
#		  then the group should be empty

# perl requirements
#
use Getopt::Std;

# setup non-buffered stdout and stderr
#
select(STDERR);
$|=1;
select(STDOUT);
$|=1;

# global constants
#
$prog = $0;			 	# our name
# =()<$spool = "@<_PATH_SPOOL>@";>()=   # top of where articles are filed
$spool = "/var/spool/news";
# =()<$active = "@<_PATH_ACTIVE>@";>()=	# inn active file, list of groups
$active = "/var/lib/news/active";
# =()<$ctlinnd = "@<_PATH_NEWSBIN>@/ctlinnd";>()=
$ctlinnd = "/usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd";
$reason = "running scanspool";		# throttle reason

# parse args
#
getopts("a:s:vcn");
$active = $opt_a if (defined($opt_a));
$spool = $opt_s if (defined($opt_s));

# throttle innd unless -n
#
if (! defined($opt_n)) {
    system("$ctlinnd throttle '$reason' >/dev/null 2>&1");
}

# process the active file
#
&parse_active($active);

# check the spool directory
#
&check_spool($spool);

# unthrottle innd unless -n
#
if (! defined($opt_n)) {
    system("$ctlinnd go '$reason' >/dev/null 2>&1");
}

# all done
exit(0);


# parse_active - parse the active file
#
# From the active file, fill out the @gname2type (type of newsgroup)
# and @realgname (real/non-aliased name of group), @lowart & @highart
# (low and high article numbers).  This routine will also check for
# aliases to missing groups or groups that are also aliases.
#
sub parse_active
{
    local ($active) = $_[0];	# the name of the active file to use
    local (*ACTIVE);		# active file handle
    local ($line);		# active file line
    local ($name);		# name of newsgroup
    local ($low);		# low article number
    local ($high);		# high article number
    local ($type);		# type of newsgroup (4th active field)
    local ($field5);		# 5th active field (should not exist)
    local ($dir);		# directory path of group from $spool
    local ($alias);		# realname of an aliased group
    local ($linenum);		# active file line number

    # if verbose (-v), say what we are doing
    print "\tscanning $active\n" if defined($opt_v);

    # open the active file
    open (ACTIVE, $active) || &fatal(1, "cannot open $active");

    # parse each line
    $linenum = 0;
    while ($line = <ACTIVE>) {

	# count the line
	++$linenum;

	# verify that we have a correct number of tokens
	if ($line !~ /^\S+ 0*(\d+) 0*(\d+) \S+$/o) {
	    &problem("WARNING: active line is mal-formed at line $linenum");
	    next;
	}
	($name, $high, $low, $type) = $line =~ /^(\S+) 0*(\d+) 0*(\d+) (\S+)$/o;

	# watch for duplicate entries
	if (defined($realgname{$name})) {
	    &problem("WARNING: ignoring dup group: $name, at line $linenum");
	    next;
	}

	# record which type it is
	$gname2type{$name} = $type;

	# record the low and high article numbers
	$lowart{$name} = $low;
	$highart{$name} = $high;

	# determine the directory and real group name
	if ($type eq "j" || $type eq "x") {
	    $dir = "junk";
	    $alias = $name;
	} elsif ($type =~ /^=(.+)/o) {
	    $alias = $1;
	    ($dir = $alias) =~ s#\.#/#go;
	    $gname2type{$name} = "=";	# rename type to be just =
	} else {
	    $dir = $name;
	    $dir =~ s#\.#/#go;
	    $alias = $name;
	}
	$realgname{$name} = $alias;
    }

    # close the active file
    close (ACTIVE);

    # be sure that any alias type is aliased to a real group
    foreach $name (keys %realgname) {

	# skip if not an alias type
	next if $gname2type{$name} ne "=";

	# be sure that the alias exists
	$alias = $realgname{$name};
	if (! defined($realgname{$alias})) {
	    &problem("WARNING: alias for $name: $alias, is not a group");
	    next;
	}

	# be sure that the alias is not an alias of something else
	if ($gname2type{$alias} eq "=") {
	    &problem("WARNING: alias for $name: $alias, is also an alias");
	    next;
	}
    }
}


# problem - report a problem to stdout
#
# Print a message to stdout.  Parameters are space separated.
# A final newline is appended to it.
#
# usage:
#	&problem(arg, arg2, ...)
#
sub problem
{
    local ($line);		# the line to write

    # print the line with the header and newline
    $line = join(" ", @_);
    print STDERR $line, "\n";
}


# fatal - report a fatal error to stderr and exit
#
# Print a message to stderr.  The message has the program name prepended
# to it.  Parameters are space separated.  A final newline is appended
# to it.  This function exists with the code of exitval.
#
# usage:
#	&fatal(exitval, arg, arg2, ...)
#
sub fatal
{
    local ($exitval) = $_[0];	# what to exit with

    # firewall
    if ($#_ < 1) {
	print STDERR "FATAL: fatal called with only ", $#_-1, " arguments\n";
	if ($#_ < 0) {
	    $exitval = -1;
	}
    }

    # print the error message
    shift(@_);
    $line = join(" ", @_);
    print STDERR "$prog: ", $line, "\n";

    # unthrottle innd unless -n
    #
    if (! defined($opt_n)) {
	system("$ctlinnd go '$reason' >/dev/null 2>&1");
    }

    # exit
    exit($exitval);
}


# check_spool - check the articles found in the spool directory
#
# This subroutine will check all articles found under the $spool directory.
# It will examine only file path that do not contain any "." or whitespace
# character, and whose basename is completely numeric.  Files under
# lost+found will also be ignored.
#
# given:
#	$spooldir  - top of /usr/spool/news article tree
#
sub check_spool
{
    local ($spooldir) = $_[0];	# top of article tree
    local (*FILEFILE);		# pipe from the find files process
    local ($filename);		# article pathname under $spool
    local ($artgrp);		# group of an article
    local ($artnum);		# article number in a group
    local ($prevgrp);		# previous different value of $artgrp
    local ($preverrgrp);	# previous non-active $artgrp
    local (*ARTICLE);		# article handle
    local ($aline);		# header line from an article
    local (@group);		# array of groups from the Newsgroup header
    local ($j);

    # if verbose, say what we are doing
    print "\tfinding articles under $spooldir\n" if defined($opt_v);

    # move to the $spool directory
    chdir $spooldir || &fatal(2, "cannot chdir to $spool");

    # start finding files
    #
    if (!open (FINDFILE,
	  "find . \\( -type f -o -type l \\) -name '[0-9]*' -print 2>&1 |")) {
	&fatal(3, "cannot start find in $spool");
    }

    # process each history line
    #
    while ($filename = <FINDFILE>) {

	# if the line contains find:, assume it is a find error and print it
	chop($filename);
	if ($filename =~ /find:\s/o) {
	    &problem("WARNING:", $filename);
	    next;
	}

	# remove the \n and ./ that find put in our path
	$filename =~ s#^\./##o;

	# skip is this path has a . in it (beyond a leading ./)
	next if ($filename =~ /\./o);

	# skip if lost+found
	next if ($filename =~ m:^lost+found/:o);

	# skip if not a numeric basename
	next if ($filename !~ m:/\d+$:o);

	# get the article's newsgroup name (based on its path from $spool)
	$artgrp = $filename;
	$artgrp =~ s#/\d+$##o;
	$artgrp =~ s#/#.#go;

	# if verbose (-v), then note if our group changed
	if (defined($opt_v) && $artgrp ne $prevgrp) {
	    print "\t$artgrp\n";
	    $prevgrp = $artgrp;
	}

	# note if the article is not in a directory that is used by
	# a real (non-aliased) group in the active file
	#
	# If we complained about this dgroup before, don't complain again.
	# If verbose, note files that could be removed.
	#
	if (!defined($gname2type{$artgrp}) || $gname2type{$artgrp} =~ /[=jx]/o){
	    if ($preverrgrp ne $artgrp) {
		&problem("$artgrp: not an active group directory");
		$preverrgrp = $artgrp;
	    }
	    if (defined($opt_v)) {
		&problem("$filename: article found in non-active directory");
	    }
	    next;
	}

	# check on the article number
	$artnum = $filename;
	$artnum =~ s#^.+/##o;
	if ($artnum =~ m/^0/o) {
	    &problem("$filename: article basename starts with a 0");
	}
	if (defined($gname2type{$artgrp})) {
	    if ($lowart{$artgrp} > $highart{$artgrp}) {
		&problem("$filename: active indicates group should be empty");
	    } elsif ($artnum < $lowart{$artgrp}) {
		&problem("$filename: article number is too low");
	    } elsif ($artnum > $highart{$artgrp}) {
		&problem("$filename: article number is too high");
	    }
	}

	# if check filenames only (-c), then do nothing else with the file
	next if (defined($opt_c));

	# don't open a control or junk, they can be from anywhere
	next if ($artgrp eq "control" || $artgrp eq "junk");

	# try open the file
	if (!open(ARTICLE, $filename)) {

	    # the find is now gone (expired?), give up on it
	    &problem("WARNING: cannot open $filename");
	    next;
	}

	# read until the Newsgroup header line is found
	AREADLINE:
	while ($aline = <ARTICLE>) {

	    # catch the newsgroup: header
	    if ($aline =~ /^Newsgroups:\w*\W/io) {

		# convert $aline into a comma separated list of groups
		$aline =~ s/^Newsgroups://io;
		$aline =~ tr/ \t\n//d;

		# form an array of news groups
		@group = split(",", $aline);

		# see if any groups in the Newsgroup list are our group
		for ($j=0; $j <= $#group; ++$j) {

		    # look at the group
		    if ($realgname{$group[$j]} eq $artgrp) {
			# this article was posted to this group
			last AREADLINE;
		    }
		}

		# no group or group alias was found
		&problem("$filename: does not belong in $artgrp");
		last;

	    # else watch for the end of the header
	    } elsif ($aline =~ /^\s*$/o) {

		# no Newsgroup: header found
		&problem("WARNING: $filename: no Newsgroup header");
		last;
	    }
	    if (eof(ARTICLE)) {
		&problem("WARNING: $filename: EOF found while reading header");
	    }
	}

	# close the article
	close(ARTICLE);
    }

    # all done with the find
    close(FINDFILE);
}