Darren Reed wrote: > Sunay Tripathi wrote: >> Darren, >> >> I appreciate the fact that you wrote a script in 15 min. Do >> you expect our end users each to write a script or a program >> and be well versed in sheel/awk to get the basic information >> they want i.e. cumulative stats and the rate of change? I >> think we really need to make it easy for people to get that >> info. > > Systems administrators, for whom commands like this are > targetted, are regularly writing scripts in perl, shell, python, > whatever. > > So, yes, I do expect them to because I know they do. > > Been there, done that - it's part of the "job description".
Huh!! Would love to meet some people who fit that description. > While there's an obvious need for the likes of "dlstat -i 2", As long as we are clear on that . > it's building in the "diff" capability that I'm questioning. Sure. Lets see if we can simplify that. > Chances are that if you're snapshotting data that you want > to reformat into CSV for a spreadsheet or reformat it for > feeding into gnuplot or the snapshot data is part of some > greater task or whatever. And that might be the option. Just allow dumping in couple of format etc. Cheers, Sunay -- Sunay Tripathi Distinguished Engineer Solaris Core Operating System Sun MicroSystems Inc. Solaris Networking: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking Project Crossbow: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow
