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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers historical ps Post 49580 by RTM on Monday 5th of April 2004 08:37:13 AM
Old 04-05-2004
If you are not running accounting, then you will have a hard time figuring out what processes were running - even if you do have accounting it may be difficult.

You can check out some of the following which may show some information.

last - you can tell who physcially signed into the system (by account) but not what they ran.
syslog - check if syslogd is running on server - then check /etc/syslog.conf to see where it's placing it's information - one file it may put it in is the /var/adm/messages file - this will contain errors/warnings/info

/var/adm/sa/* - you may or may not have files in this directory if sar is running - will give performance of server but not processes running.

If you give more information on what you are looking for, it may be easier for us to point you in the right direction.
 

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BOS_RESTART(8)						       AFS Command Reference						    BOS_RESTART(8)

NAME
       bos_restart - Restarts a server process

SYNOPSIS
       bos restart -server <machine name> [-instance <instances>+]
	   [-bosserver] [-all] [-cell <cell name>] [-noauth]
	   [-localauth] [-help]

       bos res -s <machine name> [-i <instances>+] [-b]
	   [-a] [-c <cell name>] [-n] [-l] [-h]

DESCRIPTION
       The bos restart command stops and immediately restarts server processes on the server machine named by the -server argument. Indicate which
       process or processes to restart by providing one of the following arguments:

       o   The -instance argument names each AFS server process to stop and restart immediately, regardless of its status flag in the
	   /etc/openafs/BosConfig file. Do not include bosserver in the list of processes; use the -bosserver flag instead.

       o   The -bosserver flag stops all AFS server processes running on the machine, including the BOS Server. A new BOS Server starts
	   immediately, and it starts a new instance of each process that is marked with the "Run" status flag in the BosConfig file.

       o   The -all flag stops all AFS server processes running on the machine, except the BOS Server, and immediately restarts the processes that
	   are marked with the "Run" status flag in the BosConfig file.

       This command does not change a process's status flag in the BosConfig file.

OPTIONS
       -server <machine name>
	   Indicates the server machine on which to restart each process.  Identify the machine by IP address or its host name (either fully-
	   qualified or abbreviated unambiguously). For details, see bos(8).

       -instance <instances>+
	   Names each process to stop and then restart immediately regardless of its status flag setting. Use the process name assigned with the
	   -instance argument to the bos create command. The output from the bos status command lists the names. Provide this flag or one of the
	   -bosserver or -all options, but do not combine them.

       -bosserver
	   Stops all AFS server processes running on the machine, including the BOS Server. A new BOS Server instance immediately starts, and
	   starts all processes marked with the "Run" status flag in the BosConfig file. Provide this flag or one of the -instance or -all
	   options, but do not combine them.

       -all
	   Stops all AFS server processes running on the machine other than the BOS Server, and immediately restarts the processes marked with the
	   Run status flag in the BosConfig file. Provide this flag or one of the -instance or -bosserver options, but do not combine them.

       -cell <cell name>
	   Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see bos(8).

       -noauth
	   Assigns the unprivileged identity "anonymous" to the issuer. Do not combine this flag with the -localauth flag. For more details, see
	   bos(8).

       -localauth
	   Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The bos command interpreter presents the ticket
	   to the BOS Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or -noauth options. For more details, see
	   bos(8).

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

EXAMPLES
       The following command stops and restarts all processes running on the machine "fs3.abc.com", including the BOS Server.

	  % bos restart -server fs3.abc.com -bosserver

       The following command stops and restarts all processes running on the machine "fs5.abc.com", excluding the BOS Server.

	  % bos restart -server fs5.abc.com -all

       The following command stops and restarts the Protection Server and Volume Location (VL) Server processes on the machine "db3.abc.com":

	  % bos restart -server db3.abc.com -instance ptserver vlserver

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
       The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on the machine named by the -server argument, or must be logged onto a
       server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included.

SEE ALSO
       BosConfig(5), KeyFile(5), UserList(5), bos(8), bos_create(8), bos_status(8)

COPYRIGHT
       IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

       This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.  It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas
       Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

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