sar in crontab not working

[dev44]

I have the following in my crontab, and I have many many sadc processes running but no output. When I simply type "sar", I get that there is no sa02 file. Here is my crontab entry....they folks collecting this data wanted it setup this way to get more data.

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 -A 300 5


They want it running every 5 minutes collecting ALL data.

[Victor Fridyev · Accepted solution]

It looks like crontab does not understand parameters. Writa a script with one string
/usr/lbin/sa/sa1 -A 300 5
and run it from crontab
HTH

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Victor, what are you talking about? of course cron allows you to specify parameters to your commands...

dev44, hHow to use accounting correctly comes up every now and then - it seems you have done only part of the job that needs to be done - look at my post in this thread:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1276314

HTH

Duncan

[Tingli]

Do you need to run sa2 too?. Go to /var/adm/sa to check whether there is sa1 output, which is sa## over there. Of course you can check sa2 output file sar## over there too.

[Ajay Jay]

Hi,

try this

0 * * * * /usr/lib/sa/sa1 300 12 1>/dev/null 2>&1

Regards
Ajay

[John Guster]

make sure /var/adm/sa is there, if not, create it.

[Emil Velez]

mkdir /var/adm/sa


do a man sa1

It will list the 6 entries for the crontab. I usually copy those 6 entries and they always work.

[dev44]

It didn't like the "-A". That can only be used with sa2 not sa1