Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!att!rutgers!ub.d.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!lindner From: lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Whanted for RS/6000: xload and xlock. Message-ID: <1990Nov19.150244.27977@cs.umn.edu> Date: 19 Nov 90 15:02:44 GMT References: <13784@june.cs.washington.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. Lines: 20 In <13784@june.cs.washington.edu> slh@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Scott Heyano) writes: >In article bis@ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark) writes: >|Anyone who have successfully installed this on this machine? >|-- > We have a version of xlock & some program that does some sort > of performance monitoring. > However, as they are currently written both require root > priviledges, especially xlock. Why, Why, Why, couldn't have IBM made uptime, w, xload etc a front end to the same code in "sar". Go ahead, type in sar and you'll get nice performance stats. sar doesn't require root either. -- Paul Lindner, Univ. of MN \ Microcomputer / Pauls Law: You can't IT Sun dude, & UofM ACM pres \ Workstation / fall off the floor. lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu \ Networks / {...!rutgers!umn-cs!lindner} | | | | | | | | |||||\ Center /||||| | | | | | | | |