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Linux-Announce Digest #513
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Linux-Announce Digest #513, Volume #3 Wed, 16 Jun 99 19:13:17 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: LinuxMall.com Cheap Linux CD's (Linux Mall Information)
LOCAL: MELUG (MainE Linux Users Group) next meeting (Bob LeBlanc)
atsar-1.4 - system activity reporter (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
mac2unix - Macintosh text convertor (Kevin Holbrook)
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From: Linux Mall Information <Info@LinuxMall.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: LinuxMall.com Cheap Linux CD's
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:09:06 GMT
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Linux Mall Announcement:
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Newest Linux products: http://www.LinuxMall.com/newprods.html
Upcoming Events in the Linux Community http://www.LinuxMall.com/events.html
Tux - the Linux Mascot http://www.penguinpower.com
Linux Top 40 list: http://www.LinuxMall.com/hotlist.html
LinuxMall.com Linux User Group Program:
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From: Bob LeBlanc <bob@mint.net>
Subject: LOCAL: MELUG (MainE Linux Users Group) next meeting
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:21:37 GMT
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The next meeting for MELUG will be held in Winthrop at Comm-Tel bldg.
It will be on Saturday - Jun 19th at 1pm.
Speaker is Chris Jackson and the Subject is SSH [secured shell].
You can find directions at http://www.melug.org
under meetings..
For more info contact bob@melug.org
Have a nice day
BoB
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bob@melug.org Bob LeBlanc =*= Palmyra, Maine
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From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
Subject: atsar-1.4 - system activity reporter
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:24:11 GMT
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Announcing atsar 1.4:
The command atsar can be used to detect performance-bottlenecks
on LINUX-systems, similar to the command sar on other UNIX-platforms.
Atsar offers the possibility to show what is happening on the system
at this moment (by supplying an interval and the number of samples as
command-line arguments). However it also keeps track of the system-load
in the past by maintaining history-files from which information can be
extracted.
The current version of atsar gathers statistics about the utilization
of CPU's, disks, memory and swap, and network-interfaces (TCP/IP).
Atsar for Linux can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.atcomputing.nl/pub/tools/linux/atsar_linux-1.4.tar.gz
Some background info from the manual page:
ATSAR(1) local ATSAR(1)
NAME
atsar -- system activity report
SYNOPSIS
atsar [ -flags ] t [ n ]
atsar [ -flags ] [ -s time ] [ -e time ] [ -i sec ] [
-f file | -n day# ]
DESCRIPTION
The program atsar(1) can be used to deliver statistics.
The design of this program can be compared with the stan-
dard sadc(1) and sar(1) programs being delivered for other
UNIX-implementations, i.e. a data-collector which reads
the statistical counters from the file /dev/kmem or
/proc/.... and a presentation program which formats the
counters and presents them on stdout.
In the first synopsis line, atsar samples cumulative
activity counters in the kernel at n intervals of t sec-
onds, where t should be 1 or greater. The default value of
n is 1.
The type of command shown in the first synopsis line imme-
diately sends the output for every option specified to
standard output. If only one type of statistical counter
is requested, the header is printed once and after every t
seconds the statistical counters are shown for that
period. If several options are requested, a header is
printed per sample followed by the statistical counters
for that period.
In the second synopsis line (no sampling interval speci-
fied), atsar extracts data from a previously recorded
file, either the one specified by the -f option or, by
default, the daily activity data file
/var/log/atsar/atsadd for the current day dd (day of
month). Alternatively the -n option can be used to specify
the day of the month from which counters should be shown.
The starting and ending times of the report can be defined
using the -s and -e time arguments of the form hh:mm. The
-i option selects records at sec second intervals. Other-
wise, all intervals found in the data file are reported.
The -flags option is used to define which statistical
counters are presented:
-A Statistics of all possible options.
-u Statistics about CPU utilization.
-d Statistics about utilization of the disks.
-D Statistics about utilization of disk-partitions.
-r Current memory- and swap-occupation.
-p Statistics about paging- and swapping-activity.
-I Statistics about the number interrupts per second.
-v Statistics about utilization of kernel-tables.
-l Statistics about the network interfaces.
-w Statistics about IP network traffic.
-m General statistics about ICMP layer activity.
-M Per-type statistics about ICMP layer activity.
-t Statistics about TCP network traffic.
-U Statistics about UDP network traffic.
Note that all counters are presented as events per second.
EXAMPLES
To see today's processor activity so far:
atsar
To watch TCP activity evolve for ten minutes:
atsar -t 60 10
FILES
/var/log/atsar/atsadd
Daily data file, where dd are digits representing the day
of the month.
SEE ALSO
atsadc(1)
AUTHOR
Gerlof Langeveld, AT Computing (gerlof@ATComputing.nl)
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|/ \ Jan Christiaan van Winkel Tel: +31 24 3527252 jc@ATComputing.nl
| AT Computing P.O. Box 1428 6501 BK Nijmegen The Netherlands
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From: Kevin Holbrook <kwh@neosoft.com>
Subject: mac2unix - Macintosh text convertor
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:12:37 GMT
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mac2unix - 1.0
Having obtained Apple's open source for OpenPlay, there was a need for a
Macintosh text convertor for Linux.
"mac2unix-1.0" is the first release of a text conversion tool which
converts Macintosh text files into UNIX text format for porting and
editing.
The file may be found currently at
"http://www.neosoft.com/~kwh/projects/mac2unix"
Kevin Holbrook
KevinHolbrook@yahoo.com
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