Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: sysstat cron entry is incorrect

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:04 -0500
From: redhat-watch-list-admin@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:083-04] sysstat cron entry is incorrect

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          sysstat cron entry is incorrect
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:083-04
Issue date:        2000-10-09
Updated on:        2001-01-25
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          sysstat cron iostat
Cross references:  N/A
Obsoletes:

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1. Topic:

sysstat, the package which provides the sar and iostat
facilities, provides an invalid crontab entry in Red Hat Linux 7.0.
This causes the I/O summaries to never get updated.

2001-01-17: crontab errors fully corrected.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 7.0 – alpha, i386

3. Problem description:

sysstat is a package provided starting with with Red Hat Linux
7.0. It provides the sar and iostat commands, which allow a system
administrator to keep tabs on a systems’ input/output
statistics.

To generate reports of daily activity, several entries are added
to the system’s crontab entry. These entries were formatted
incorrectly as shipped. These entries have been corrected, and
moved from the root user’s crontab into scripts contained in the
/etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly directories.

Additionally, support for iostat’s -p and -l command line
arguments was disabled. These arguments are now supported.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

16268 – iostat option -l and -p are not implemented
18212 – sar does not work from cron
19129 – crontab still wrong for sysstat
19153 – “iostat” seems broken
24820 – sa1 and sa2 problems

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/sysstat-3.3.3-3.src.rpm

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/sysstat-3.3.3-3.alpha.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/sysstat-3.3.3-3.i386.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

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449959f96117e5c7cb3ed711f0a4bf3c 7.0/SRPMS/sysstat-3.3.3-3.src.rpm
d36b935aedbee377a704f9acc582a000 7.0/alpha/sysstat-3.3.3-3.alpha.rpm
3a1a65a8764292eca88891a415a834e4 7.0/i386/sysstat-3.3.3-3.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig <filename>

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg <filename>

8. References:

N/A

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