09-19-2011
You mean what commands you can execute? Look at sudo -l.
Or do you mean if there's any special restriction? Then no, any command can be run with sudo.
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eventstat
EVENTSTAT(8) System Manager's Manual EVENTSTAT(8)
NAME
eventstat - a tool to measure system events.
SYNOPSIS
eventstat [-rcsv_file][-nevent_count][delay [count]]
DESCRIPTION
eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.
OPTIONS
eventstat options are as follow:
-h show help
-n event_count
only display the first event_count number of top events.
-q run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.
-r csv_file
output gathered data in a comma separated values file. This can be then imported and graphed using your favourite open source spread
sheet.
-t threshold
ignore samples where the event delta per second less than the given threshold
EXAMPLES
Dump events every second until stopped.
sudo eventstat
Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped.
sudo eventstat -n 20 60
Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.
sudo eventstat 10 5
SEE ALSO
powertop(8)
AUTHOR
eventstat was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
This manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
June 13, 2012 EVENTSTAT(8)