Linux-Misc Digest #830, Volume #25 Thu, 21 Sep 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
IBM DB2 7.1 for Linux download ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I 'get rid of' Linux from my hard drive? (Bill Unruh)
Which rc script should I put xdm in? ("Erik Chow")
Re: linux screws up windoze filesystem ? (Florian E.J. Fruth)
RH6.2 w/remote printer setup (Kerry Taylor)
Kudsu in every boot...Why? (Gerardo Rincon)
Re: Which rc script should I put xdm in? (Bill Unruh)
Re: URGENT: cksum inconsistency (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kudsu in every boot...Why? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: How do I 'get rid of' Linux from my hard drive? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Games and Software in Linux (Michel Catudal)
Re: installing on a hd not supported by bios (Dances With Crows)
Re: Ethernet interface problem (Dances With Crows)
nfs partition not mounted at reboot. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem loading keytable ("Olivier Thomas")
RPM problem ("Olivier Thomas")
Re: sysstat-3.3.1 - System performance tools for Linux (Ken McDonell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IBM DB2 7.1 for Linux download
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:12:15 GMT
========================================================================
=====================================================================
The latest evaluation copy of DB2 Universal Database Version 7.1 is a
fully Web-enabled relational database management system. It is scalable
from single processors to symmetric multiprocessors to massively
parallel clusters. DB2 Universal Database features multimedia
capabilities with image, audio, video, text, spatial, and other
advanced object relational support. With Version 7.1, DB2 Universal
Database delivers even more powerful support for e-business through
Java, XML, and mobile solutions as well as new built-in support for
business intelligence solutions.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/html/devtoolbox?
open&l=201,t=gr,p=devtoolbox
========================================================================
=====================================================================
Here's a list of Guest Level Linux downloadable software resources you
can get from the IBM DeveloperToolbox.
-- IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition, Version 7.1 for
Linux
-- IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Edition, Version 7.1 for Linux
-- IBM WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition V3.0 for Linux
-- IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder Version 4.0 for Linux evaluation
-- IBM WebSphere Performance Pack for Multiplatforms, V3.0 Getting
Started
-- IBM Linux for WebSphere and DB2 servers
-- Servlet and JSP Programming with IBM WebSphere Studio and VisualAge
for Java
-- IBM HTTP Server V1.3.6.2 for Linux
There are lots of XML and Jave tools you can get for free as well -
this is worth a look.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How do I 'get rid of' Linux from my hard drive?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 00:47:41 GMT
In <8qe5i8$2rf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> holly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Here's the current situation :
>I have 2 hard drives. The primary ide is 20Gb, 17Gb of which is windows
>98 (boots by default) and 3gb of which is linux mandrake 7.0, split only
>into / and swap (bootable by floppy). The secondary ide is 3.2Gb, which
>is dedicated to freebsd (boots by default via bios choice).
>Anyhow, does anyone out there know how I should best go about removing
>the linux partitions entirely, followed by growing the windows partition
>to the full 20Gb-ish capacity?
a)Boot up the installation disk for Mandrake. Go to disk partitioning.
Select the Mandrake partition and erase it.
Grow the windows partion to fill the spece.
b) Get Partition Magic and do the same.
In both cases make sure that you backup your windows partition in case
something does not work.
NOte I have never tried this so, I cannot guarentee it will not destroy
all your data.
Also note-- you do not say which booter you use. Note that Lilo can boot
all three, but you do not want Linux there to be booted after you have
finished. You could go into lilo and delete the Linux entry and rerun
lilo. This should leave just the Win. to be booted from lilo. Or get rid
of lilo altogether ( eg fdisk /mbr in Windows-- or whatever you need to
do to get Windows to reset the bootup.)
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From: "Erik Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which rc script should I put xdm in?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:49:35 -0400
All,
I want xdm to start every time I boot up my machine. Which rc script
should I put in? and What should I put in? just /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm?
Thanks.
Erik
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Subject: Re: linux screws up windoze filesystem ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:44:18 +0200
thx, for your help, but i think i know what went wrong:
i installed the kernel-2.4.0-test8 with automounter V4 - this new
automounter was the damn thing (i think :| )...
it didn't accept the timeout switch and so i recompiled the kernel with the
old automounter and now i also got rid of my windoze filename problem....
hope that was it :|
fejf
--
Words u don't want to hear from your sysadmin:
Ooops. Save your work - FAST !
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From: Kerry Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:53:42 GMT
Hi, I know this should be easy but I can't get it working. I have two
locally networked PC's , both with RH6.2, and one has a local printer
configured and working(router.mynet.all). The other I have configured
for a Remote Unix lpd Queue (gamer.mynet.all).
My gamer printcap looks like this:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=192.168.1.1:\ (I also tried "router.mynet.all" in here)
:rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
I did get a message that the testpages were queued and waiting for
permission from router.mynet.all but I couldn't figure out how to get
the router PC to allow printing from the gamer PC.
Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:49:20 -0400
From: Gerardo Rincon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kudsu in every boot...Why?
Every time I boot into Linux my computer goes into a Kudsu Hardware
Discovery....It sits there for 30 seconds and then it fails,...and then,
the rest of the boot process is OK...It just delays the boot time 30
seconds...WHY? can I eliminate this step? How?
--
Gerardo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Which rc script should I put xdm in?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 01:11:05 GMT
In <8qea7m$12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Erik Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>All,
> I want xdm to start every time I boot up my machine. Which rc script
>should I put in? and What should I put in? just /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm?
>Thanks.
None. It goes into /etc/inittab
Just set it to runlevel 5 as the initial default.
It should already have a line
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: URGENT: cksum inconsistency
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:45:54 GMT
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:40:57 -0700, visor-palm John <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Here's some unusual behavior of my Linux system:
|
|System: Pentium
|RedHat Linux 6.1, 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
|glibc: libc-2.1.2.so
|RAM: 160M
|
|I was seeing some serious wierdness when un-tarring files relating to
|CHECKSUM issues.
|So I took a file from another LINUX box (Box_Good) and moved it to this box
|(Box_Bad)
|Then did a "cksum" on each file on each machine, here's the output:
|
|Box_Good
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|1137249719 70144000 weblogic.tar
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|1137249719 70144000 weblogic.tar
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|1137249719 70144000 weblogic.tar
|
|Box_Bad
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|1518445659 70144000 weblogic510.tar
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|660226238 70144000 weblogic510.tar
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|699912833 70144000 weblogic510.tar
|$ cksum weblogic510.tar
|2990202343 70144000 weblogic510.tar
|
|Notice how the cksum's are moving around on Box_Bad but consistent on
|Box_Good...any ideas?
It may be a bad hard drive, if the data that is being read changes
then the checksum will change.
What symptoms led you to call one of the boxes "bad" ?
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:41:56 GMT
I just did this with my computer. Its easiest to just use the
printtool.
# /usr/sbin/printtool
and add what you need.
remember to run a /usr/sbin/checkpc -f to get all the permissions right.
If it warns you about /var/spool/lpd/lp0/lp..blahblah/filter not being
executable, then just change them to:
# chmod 711 (rwx--x--x) and DON't run checkpc again or it will put them
back
then try to print again.
These are just ideas, d9on't know if they will work.
Also you ought to look into LPRng (lpr next generation.) its a nice lpr
package that allows for lots of functions you don't really need, but one
nice one is that you can accept and deny hosts seperately from the
/etc/hosts file, so if you ONLY want a few computers to print to your
printer you can limit it accordingly. The url for the download is in
the Printing-HOWTO (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO)
Let me know how it turns out.
-Justin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kerry Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I know this should be easy but I can't get it working. I have two
> locally networked PC's , both with RH6.2, and one has a local printer
> configured and working(router.mynet.all). The other I have configured
> for a Remote Unix lpd Queue (gamer.mynet.all).
> My gamer printcap looks like this:
>
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :rm=192.168.1.1:\ (I also tried "router.mynet.all" in here)
> :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> I did get a message that the testpages were queued and waiting for
> permission from router.mynet.all but I couldn't figure out how to get
> the router PC to allow printing from the gamer PC.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:41:33 GMT
I just did this with my computer. Its easiest to just use the
printtool.
# /usr/sbin/printtool
and add what you need.
remember to run a /usr/sbin/checkpc -f to get all the permissions right.
If it warns you about /var/spool/lpd/lp0/lp..blahblah/filter not being
executable, then just change them to:
# chmod 711 (rwx--x--x) and DON't run checkpc again or it will put them
back
then try to print again.
These are just ideas, d9on't know if they will work.
Also you ought to look into LPRng (lpr next generation.) its a nice lpr
package that allows for lots of functions you don't really need, but one
nice one is that you can accept and deny hosts seperately from the
/etc/hosts file, so if you ONLY want a few computers to print to your
printer you can limit it accordingly. The url for the download is in
the Printing-HOWTO (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO)
Let me know how it turns out.
-Justin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kerry Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I know this should be easy but I can't get it working. I have two
> locally networked PC's , both with RH6.2, and one has a local printer
> configured and working(router.mynet.all). The other I have configured
> for a Remote Unix lpd Queue (gamer.mynet.all).
> My gamer printcap looks like this:
>
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :rm=192.168.1.1:\ (I also tried "router.mynet.all" in here)
> :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
> I did get a message that the testpages were queued and waiting for
> permission from router.mynet.all but I couldn't figure out how to get
> the router PC to allow printing from the gamer PC.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.
>
>
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kudsu in every boot...Why?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 01:55:19 GMT
Gerardo Rincon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every time I boot into Linux my computer goes into a Kudsu Hardware
> Discovery....It sits there for 30 seconds and then it fails,...and then,
> the rest of the boot process is OK...It just delays the boot time 30
> seconds...WHY? can I eliminate this step? How?
Kudzu is RH's attempt at Plug'n'Play (of a sort). Personally, I hate that
kind of automation, and I always turn it off. Using RH's chkconfig tool:
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 kudzu off
or, by hand:
cd /etc/rc.d/rc?.d (where ? is 3, 4, or 5)
mv S??kudzu K??kudzu (where ?? is whatever it is)
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I 'get rid of' Linux from my hard drive?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 20:55:07 -0500
holly a �crit :
>
> Here's the current situation :
>
> I have 2 hard drives. The primary ide is 20Gb, 17Gb of which is windows
> 98 (boots by default) and 3gb of which is linux mandrake 7.0, split only
> into / and swap (bootable by floppy). The secondary ide is 3.2Gb, which
> is dedicated to freebsd (boots by default via bios choice).
>
Amusing, I have 2 hard drives 14G and 15G with 3G for winblows and the rest for
Linux. I will remove winblows as soon as my Mustek 600 CP scanner is supported on
Linux.
to your question :
use partition magic to remove the partitions and increase the size of the
winblows partition. If the partitions are extended just reformat them under
winblows.
You could use bsd's fdisk to format the partitions.
--
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then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
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We have software, food, music, news, search,
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Games and Software in Linux
Date: 21 Sep 2000 20:59:03 -0500
"J�rn" a �crit :
>
> Hi, I �m an original new user of Suse Linux 7.0 and i�m wondering how to
> get my Windows Games and Software running in Linux? Do I have to buy a
> special Linux version or are there any integrated tools or scripts that may
> help me?
Reboot on winblows to play winblows' games.
Some winblows` software will work with wine.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: installing on a hd not supported by bios
Date: 22 Sep 2000 02:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21 Sep 2000 19:13:11 GMT, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
>I have a pc with a 6.4 Gb harddisk and a bios that supports only disk up to
>2.1 Gb. Is there a way to install both windows and linux without using a
>tool like EZ-bios?
>I want to have 2 Gb for windows. Since windows relies on the bios, it
>should be on the beginning of the disk. Since the kernel has to be located
>within the first 1023 cilinders, I also want to have a very small linux
>partion within the first 470 Mb (my geometry is C,H,S = 13328,15,63). Since
>windows does not now anything of the > 2.1 Gb area, the extended partition
>is not allowed to cross the 2.1 boundary so it has to be entirely beyond
>the 2.1 limit. (below would limit the number of partions beyond the 2.1
>limit to one.). Therefore, the second windows partion has to be a primary
>one, but windows can only deal with one primary partition!
>
>Is there any solution or do I have to install the EZ-bios tool? How does
>such a tool work? Does it make an extra partition? How do I have to deal
>with it?
You don't *have* to have a Linux partition within the first 1024
cylinders; it's very possible to put the kernel image and the loading
map on a DOS partition. I wrote a message explaining how to do this
within the last 24 hours--search Deja, or look at the HOWTOs on
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ for info on doing just that.
EZ-BIOS and other such programs reside on the drive's MBR and intercept
the BIOS calls that brain-damaged OSes use to read hard disks,
translating these BIOS calls into something the drive can work with and
removing the 2G limitation. I believe that Linux can handle the most
popular drive overlay programs, so you might want to try EZ-BIOS if you
think it'll make things easier.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface problem
Date: 22 Sep 2000 02:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:36:20 -0500, Chakravarthy Sannedhi wrote:
>I am using the Redhat linux for a particular project. I had problem whenever
>i reboot my machine. Whenever i reboot the two ethernet interface cards
>(eth0 and eth1) on my machine are becoming inactive. So all the time i am
>doing the following course to make them active.
>System -> Control Panel -> Networking configuration
>after that i am pressing the Interfaces tab and making them acive and then
>quit.
>Is there any permanent solution to get around this problem. What is the
>command i could use. How come they could be default active?
In /etc/conf.modules, add the lines
alias eth0 NAME_OF_ETHERNET_MODULE_FOR_ETH0
alias eth1 NAME_OF_ETHERNET_MODULE_FOR_ETH1
Those things aren't generally too hard to figure out; take a look at the
output of "lsmod" after doing that control-panel stuff to figure out
what they are.
RedHat has some distro-specific stuff in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
that you can modify with vi or linuxconf, or you can do things the Real
(Stupid) Way and just slam some lines like these into
/sbin/init.d/boot.local (/etc/rc.d/rc.local ):
ifconfig eth0 xxx.yyy.zzz.www broadcast aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask
eee.fff.ggg.hhh up
ifconfig eth1 xxx.yyy.zzz.www broadcast aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask
eee.fff.ggg.hhh up
route add default gw YOUR_GATEWAY
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: nfs partition not mounted at reboot.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:24:11 GMT
Hi,
I did a nfs mount from another unix machine and defined them in
/etc/fstab.
But then, when the machine rebooted, it does not mount the nfs mounted
partition automatically. I have to mount it manually even though the
entry is there in /etc/fstab.
I'm using redhat 6.2.
Any body with some hint ?
** i'm new to linux. many of my machine is using solaris.
thanks,
--ihsanna
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From: "Olivier Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem loading keytable
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:42:52 -0700
Hi,
I have a Japanese keyboard on my laptop. I installed Red Hat 6.2 english.
On the command line I have a problem to specify the Japanese layout keyboard
(106 keys).
When I type loadkeys jp106, I have the following error message :
"adding map 2 violates explicit keymap lines"
Does anybody know where it comes from ? I tried with a French layout by
doing "loadkeys fr" and it works OK. Is there a bug with that ?
Concerning X, no problem to configure the Japanese keyboard by editing
XF86config.
Thanks for your support,
Olivier.
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From: "Olivier Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM problem
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:38:37 -0700
Hi,
I try to install a RPM package of Xemacs but I got the folowing error
message :
"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of RPM".
What should I do ? Upgrade my RPM manager ?
My Linux version is Red Hat 6.2
Thanks,
Olivier.
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From: Ken McDonell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sysstat-3.3.1 - System performance tools for Linux
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:00:28 +1100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sebastien Godard wrote:
> ...
> Sysstat release 3.3.1 is available now on sunsite/metalab server:
>
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/status/
> 72kB sysstat-3.3.1.tar.gz
> 74kB sysstat-3.3.1-1.src.rpm
> 57kB sysstat-3.3.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
> for Linux. These include sar, iostat, sa tools and, for the first time
> with sysstat 3.3.1, mpstat.
>
> Version 3.3.1 is a development release, with new things being added and
> tested that will eventually lead to sysstat 3.4 (the future stable
> version).
> Please also note that the kernel disk accounting patch that was supplied
> with sysstat no longer exists, since I no longer have the time to
> maintain it.
> ...
Sebastien, the disk accounting stuff is a problem, but one that we
(within
SGI) are already attacking and we do have time to maintain it.
I'd like to suggest, that we could get a better set of tools for
everyone if we took the user-level applications from sysstat, and
replaced their stats collection with the APIs from the Performance
Co-Pilot (PCP, see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp) ... this would
insulate iostat, sar, mpstat, and friends from changes in the data
format, location and access methods for kernel performance data, and
immediately make all of these tools able to seamlessly process
performance data from the local host, a remote host (over TCP/IP) and a
historical (PCP) archive.
Comments?
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