One quick way is to pipe it through 'tail' only outputting line 2 through the end:
I realize that the original question is specific to linux, but, still, I see no reason to use --lines instead of the ubiquitous -n.
However, I can think of at least two reasons not to: (1) Even if only by a trivial amount, it increases the learning curve for a new Linux admin with a non-GNU userland background. (2) Novice UNIX scripters may be frustrated when their GNU-only code doesn't run a non-GNU system.
I am the Linux Admin in my organisation and need to write a shell script which will monitor the machine statistics every day and will send a consolidated report to me on my email id / will display the output into a file.
Does anyone have such kind of script fulfilling this kind of purpose?
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Hi,
I am trying to take the Statistics of the machine during load.Can someone explian the parameters of
iostat:
tty sd1 sd2 sd3 sd4 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy wt id
vmstat:
kthr ... (1 Reply)
All:
I have a V445 server with four IIIi CPUs and 8 GB RAM running Solaris 10 and an Oracle database along with some app server components and we have had some performance issues - so I collected some VMSTAT and MPSTAT data over the course of three days with a 15-minute polling interval.
I... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have monitored prstat,vmstat and sar -u on sun system for 24 hours. Following is the output.
Average Utilization :
vmstat : 65%
sar : 66%
prstat :51%.
vmstat and sar output are same but there is a 14-15% difference with prstat.
What is the reason of this ?
Regards,... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a server running an Oracle database that is part of a Solaris M5000 container. Presumably this is referred to as a zone within a cluster, not sure if I get the terminology right.
Anyway, a third-party manages the zone and unfortunately is not "helpful/friendly" to assist me on... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I had installed sysstat package below on a SUSE 11.4 box. I can see the sysstat cron file listed under the directory /etc/sysstat. However, it looks like the sysstat sar monitor is never run at all and the daily sar files are not created under the directory /var/log/sa. The cron daemon is also... (1 Reply)
HI I ma using mpstat and sar commands to check the cpu utilisation
but the results are not matching .I dont understand why thisis happening?
$ sar -u 12 5
Linux 2.6.9-89.35.1.ELhugemem (abcd.efgh.com) 03/07/2013
02:43:16 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %idle... (1 Reply)
I have a script which runs the mpstat and prints the output in a file. In order capture highest cpu ususage from the generated output file,
have to manually tail the output file and need to grab which cpu has highest value (which is very annoying)
Is there a way we can automate that process of... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Been reading a lot of the cpu load and its "analogy of it to car traffic path of expressway"
From wiki
Most UNIX systems count only processes in the running (on CPU) or runnable (waiting for CPU) states. However, Linux also includes processes in uninterruptible sleep states... (13 Replies)
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inotail
INOTAIL(1) Inotify enhanced tail INOTAIL(1)NAME
inotail - A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify
SYNOPSIS
inotail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify in-
frastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the
file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file
needs to be reread. Note: inotail will not work on systems running a kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it.
Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future.
OPTIONS -c N, --bytes=N
output the last N bytes. If the first character of N is a '+', begin printing with the Nth character from the start of each file.
-f, --follow
keep the file(s) open and print appended data as the file grows
-n N, --lines=N
output the last N lines (default: 10) If the first character of N is a '+', begin printing with the Nth line from the start of each
file.
-v, --verbose
print headers with file names
-h, --help
show help and exit
-V, --version
show inotail version and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
SEE ALSO tail(1), inotify(7)
2006-08-13 INOTAIL(1)