enable sar

[kvashisht]

I want to enable sar logging. how can i do it.
whats the password of user sys.

Pls tell me the password of other system users.

Regds,
Kaushal Vashisht

 

[SamBones]

The user id [tt]sys[/tt] has no password. You'll need to log on as [tt]root[/tt] and [tt]su[/tt] to it to enable [tt]sar[/tt].

Hope this helps.

 

[kvashisht]

what i have done i am writing to u.
i logged as root
then su - sys
then go to /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
vi sys
& make the changes but when i save it says dont have permission.


Regds,
Kaushal Vashisht

 

[bonifale]

Just a thought.

Try ommiting the minus from the su command.

 

[tikual]

First, you can enable sar by root. If you really want to do it by sys. Pls. see the config file of crontab:
/etc/cron.d/cron.allow and
/etc/cron.d/cron.deny

tikual

 

[z28sarefun]

It's best not to directly edit the crontab files. Once you su - sys
then verify your EDITOR env variable by typing:

echo $EDITOR

It should come back with "vi". If not just type:

EDITOR=vi;export EDITOR

Then type:

crontab -e

This will bring up a vi window with the sys crontab in it. Edit the file as you normally would and when you do a
:wq
it'll save the file and tell the cron daemon to re-read it.

Make sure you have an editor set before you type crontab -e, if you don't have an editor set and you exit the program wrong you can erase the crontab (ask me how I know).

HTH
Brian