We want to graph the number of users on our aix system. We are currently doing this by running a cron job to do the uptime command every 10 minutes and append the results to a file. Problem is that it doesn’t output the date. Can anyone suggest a command or a simple script to enable us to achieve this by producing a file that could be directly imported into a spreadsheet?
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I don't know anything about spreadsheets, really, but I think they can import comma-delimited text files. So separate your fields with commas.
If you want AIX to tell you the date, you use the `date` command.
If you want both uptime and date on one line, try this:
print `uptime;date` >> log.file
Have fun. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation
If you want AIX to tell you the date, you use the `date` command.
If you want both uptime and date on one line, try this:
print `uptime;date` >> log.file
Have fun. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation
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