Since vmstat is going to be in control, that's going to be rough to make happen without at least a bash script using sleep, date, and invoking vmstat for a 1 time output and looping..
Have you considered using sar (sysstat package) ? It will give you the same info (plus more) and produce reports that have timestamps, etc... Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I would like an easy way to prefix the results of a command with the > timestamp. > > The command: > > vmstat 10 8640 > vmstat.out > > I start this up at 5 PM, so I can see if some process starts using the > Linux system at night. Great results, but without a timestamp, I don't know > what time, something start using the system. > > I could use Regina to do this, but I'm interested if there is a more native > way (without Perl) to do this. > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > Law of Dinner Table Attendance > > Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
