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- From: bill@toby.transportation.state.mn.us (Hari Seldon psycohistorian)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: sa -e ????
- Message-ID: <31482@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:32:10 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 33
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- Drew Einhorn <einhorn@apsicc.aps.edu> said:
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- >Management wants to turn on process accounting so we can begin
- >backcharging for usage of our Sun Sparcstations and our IBM RS/6000.
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- then Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com> replied:
- >Use 'sa -e' and postprocess to your heart's content, probably using
- >awk or perl. (Translating group ids to names in awk is not a lot of
- >fun though.)
-
- and then Rob McMahon <cudcv@warwick.ac.uk> further requested:
- >What system's this on ? What does it do ?
-
-
- well, tom is obv on a convex, rob is not on an rs6000 or a convex; and i'm
- on a rs6000 mod 550 @ aix 3.2 and this is what i see:
- sa -e
- sa: 0551-099 The e flag is not valid.
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-
- from info i got the following (i didn't cut more 'cause its full of extra spaces
-
- Syntax
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- /usr/sbin/sa [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -f ] [ -i ]
- [ -j ] [ -k ] [ -K ] [ -l ] [ -m ] [ -n ] [ -r ] [ -s ]
- [ -t ] [ -u ] [ -vNumber ] [ -SSaveFile ] [ -UUserFile ] [ File ]
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-
- so tom to reiterate rob, whats the e switch do? inquiring minds want to know.
- not that aix will do it but it's nice to know whats out there :-)
- bill pociengel
-