On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at cleaning up some legacy bits of software .... in an attempt > to clean up some of the remote corners of Solaris and reduce the amount of > baggage we carry. > > I've hit a dependent though, that I can't easily resolve without breaking > things. "sag". > > "sag" is the utility that processes "sar" data and makes graphs in a Tek > 4014 mode xterm. (You can also use it with /usr/lib/lp/postscript/posttek). > The results are functional, although pretty darned ugly IMO. And the way > the tool generates these graphs is ... unmaintainable.
The only time that I have seen a Tek window displayed was when I accidentally discovered the functionality then went looking for demos. That was probably in the mid 90's - and even then it seemed like something that "the old unix guy that had since transitioned to writing his graphs directly in postscript" would have used back in days long forgotten. I tend to find that if I need to generate graphical data of system performance, there is a reasonable chance that I need to present it to management or some other place that it needs to look nice. A screenshot of a tek window doesn't really meet that criteria. It's time to jump forward a couple decades. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
