On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:23 -0700, Sean McGlynn wrote: > Andrei, > > Thank you for taking the time to reply. What doesn't make sense to me is that /etc/sysconfig/sysstat is configured with HISTORY=7, but there are nine days of files being maintained. > > Thanks. > > Sean Sory for late answer: my laptop has HISTORY=7 but I have 14 days worth of logs :) Doesn't make sense, just like you said. However, digging a bit into sysstat I found something interesting: ---------------- [root@ave sa]# cat /usr/lib/sa/sa2 #!/bin/sh # /usr/lib/sa/sa2.sh # (C) 1999-2006 Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> wanadoo dot fr) # # Changes: # - 2004-01-22 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp <at> redhat dot com> # make history configurable # HISTORY=7 [ -r /etc/sysconfig/sysstat ] && . /etc/sysconfig/sysstat [ ${HISTORY} -gt 28 ] && HISTORY=28 S_TIME_FORMAT=ISO ; export S_TIME_FORMAT umask 0022 DATE=`date +%d` RPT=/var/log/sa/sar${DATE} ENDIR=/usr/bin DFILE=/var/log/sa/sa${DATE} [ -f "$DFILE" ] || exit 0 cd ${ENDIR} ${ENDIR}/sar $* -f ${DFILE} > ${RPT} find /var/log/sa \( -name 'sar??' -o -name 'sa??' \) -mtime \ +"${HISTORY}" -exec rm -f {} \; ---------------- And guess who's sa2 and what's it doing: ---------------- [root@ave sa]# cat /etc/cron.d/sysstat # run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes */10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1 # generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53 53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A ---------------- So, if you nedd to adjust its behaviour, just adjust /usr/lib/sa/sa2. Regards, Andrei -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list