On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:33:02AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, A. Harry Williams wrote:
>
> > >> - Are there any types of "SMF" records cut to record access
> > >> or violations to resources in a Linux z/VM environment ?
>
> I don't know of a way to detect accesses to datasets a user shouldn't be
> accessing. An ordinary user can't read /etc/shadow, but I don't know how
> to detect the attempt.
>
> > >There are entries in /var/log, just as on a normal Unix system. Neale's
> > >hcp command can be used to write those messages from syslog to a
> > >VM-based service, but it is not in the standard distributions.  There is
> > >also rudimentary SVC 76 support for writing accounting records, but this
> > >also doesn't fit the bill.
> There is accounting available. Look at sysstat, homepage
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
>
> I've no idea how it performs, accounting is not something I've wanted to
> do.

I hope my understanding of the terms is right..
For me accouting is to find out WHO has used a resource how much (to write bills).
systat does not provide this information. systat just tells you
how much a resource has been used at a given time. Its main goal
is to find bottlenecks or to find a reason to the statement "the
system is slow".

Ihno

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