[NCLUG] Error message from cron

[Gabriel L Somlo]

This is your system activity logger at work. The command 'sar' should 
print a history of your system activity parameters collected over a period 
of time. 'sadc' is the backend (i.e., the data collector) for sar. 
/usr/lib/sa1 and /usr/lib/sa2 are scripts which run from cron.hourly and 
cron.daily respectively, to generate the logs which are found in 
/var/log/sa/

Most likely, there's something wrong with the log file in question (sa11), 
it's either corrupt or missing.

Both 'sar' and 'sadc' have man pages if you need anything more specific.

Hope this helps,

Gabriel

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     Gabriel L.  Somlo                   Assistant System Administrator
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, bmc wrote:

> Hey all,
> Being that I am not admin material ( but working on it everyday) I am not
> sure what this message I am getting from cron means can any of you help?
> 
> I keep getting this message
> Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa11
> and its coming from Cronr<root at lccc3c24> /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
> 
> I looked in the latter directory and found no script there with that name
> and in /var/log the file doesn't even exist.
> 
> Any ideas as to what the heck this is supposed to mean?
> Brett
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