Phew, kpearson that is really tough to comprehend. But why is a script required? Is the sa1 and sa2 command not sufficient to give me the output i want? My output has been very inconsistent. Is there...
Hi Kpearson, forgive me for being slow but i do not really understand what you tried to convey in your message. Maybe i should tell you what i am trying to achieve with the sa reporting. I would like...
Sorry. Actually when i say it works, this means all the suggestions above given work. that's why i did not specify which exact one works. You can use cat /dev/null or cp /dev/null. The mistake i made...
Hi all, does anyone know what is the relationship between sa1 and sa2? Apparently both have to be included to make reporting work. If you include only 1, let's say sa2, the file is created but...
Hmm guys, i tried the command on other servers and it doesn't work anymore??!!! what happened? i copied the exact command that John you wrote there. I only managed2 let it work in the first server i...
Oops sorry just ice, i only remember the quote you have, which is light hence i put in a wrong name sorry sorry. I used the command crontab -e. Hi John, icic now i notice my mistake so i guess now i...
Hi Johnf, hmm that command of yours work but not mine, what's the difference in the time that you placed? you put it as 00, 01, .... whereas i only put a 1 there as every single minute right? Hi...
How come i need to add the > but via command line i do not need to use that? How often will it update the log file for cron? Once i've modified i do not see it in the /var/adm/cron/log file...
Hi all, i am trying to reduce the file size of /var/adm/wtmp in my AIX servers and im using the method cp /dev/null /var/adm/wtmp to reduce it. I thought of automating it by including this command...