Changeset 5a195f0f for general/sysutils/sysstat.xml

Timestamp:

02/09/2009 08:50:20 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

338c7e3

Parents:

38867eb

Message:

Updated to Sysstat-8.0.4.1

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@7749 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/sysutils/sysstat.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

general/sysutils/sysstat.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY sysstat-download-http "http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/sysstat-&sysstat-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY sysstat-download-ftp  "ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/status/sysstat-&sysstat-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY sysstat-md5sum        "46a6af9c5486809c4f1fb4f8fcdf2684">
-  <!ENTITY sysstat-size          "124 KB">
-  <!ENTITY sysstat-buildsize     "2 MB">
+  <!ENTITY sysstat-md5sum        "8352760480604419cdca748cd2e28d57">
+  <!ENTITY sysstat-size          "181 KB">
+  <!ENTITY sysstat-buildsize     "3 MB">
   <!ENTITY sysstat-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
 ]>
@@ -74 +74 @@
     following commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>make config &amp;&amp;
+<!-- <screen><userinput>make config &amp;&amp;
+make</userinput></screen> -->
+
+<screen><userinput>sa_lib_dir=/usr/lib/sa \
+    sa_dir=/var/log/sa \
+  conf_dir=/etc/sysconfig \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr \
+                --disable-man-group &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -90 +97 @@
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
-    <para><command>make config</command>: Runs the interactive configuration
+    <!-- <para><command>make config</command>: Runs the interactive configuration
     process. The first question prompts you for an
     <quote><computeroutput>Installation directory</computeroutput></quote>.
     Reply with <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>, as this is
     equivalent to <application>Autoconf</application>'s
-    <option>--prefix=/usr</option> parameter to <command>configure</command>.
+    <option>-prefix=/usr</option> parameter to <command>configure</command>.
     For all other prompts, you may press <keycap>Enter</keycap> to accept the
     (very sane) defaults. When prompted for <quote><computeroutput>Number of
     daily data files to keep: [7]</computeroutput></quote>, you may wish to
-    keep a larger number of files.</para>
+    keep a larger number of files.</para> -->
+
+    <para><envar>sa_lib_dir</envar>: This environment variable specifies the
+    location of the package-specific library directory.</para>
+
+    <para><envar>sa_dir</envar>: This environment variable specifies the
+    location of the directory containing the data files.</para>
+
+    <para><envar>conf_dir</envar>: This environment variable specifies the
+    location of the system configuration directory.</para>
+
+    <para><parameter>--disable-man-group</parameter>: This parameter causes
+    the installation to ignore the man group variable resulting in the man
+    files having
+    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:<systemitem class="groupname">root</systemitem>
+    ownership.</para>
+
+    <para>Run <command>./configure --help</command> to see other influential
+    environment variables you can pass to <command>configure</command>. You may
+    want to use the <envar>history</envar> and <envar>compressafter</envar>
+    variables to customize the amount of data files kept on the system.</para>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -111 +138 @@
       <para>To begin gathering <application>Sysstat</application> history
       information, you must add to, or create a privileged user's crontab. The
-      default history data location is
+      history data location is
       <filename class="directory">/var/log/sa</filename>. The user running
       <application>Sysstat</application> utilities via cron must have write
@@ -165 +192 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>iostat, mpstat, sar, sa1, sa2, sadc and sadf</seg>
+        <seg>iostat, mpstat, pidstat, sar, sa1, sa2, sadc and sadf</seg>
         <seg>None</seg>
         <seg>/usr/lib/sa, /usr/share/doc/sysstat-&sysstat-version; and
@@ -195 +222 @@
           <indexterm zone="sysstat mpstat">
             <primary sortas="b-mpstat">mpstat</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="pidstat">
+        <term><command>pidstat</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>is used for monitoring individual tasks currently being managed
+          by the Linux kernel.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="sysstat pidstat">
+            <primary sortas="b-pidstat">pidstat</primary>
           </indexterm>
         </listitem>