Accounting test data

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Wed May 16 14:25:08 UTC 2007


On 05/16/07 08:49, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> 
>> I'm testing the backwards compatibility of the process accounting processing 
>> tools (sa(8) and lastcomm(1)) with the upcoming new acct(5) record format. 
>> If you have root access on a FreeBSD AMD64, Sparc64, ia64, or PowerPC machine 
>> please run the shell script http://www.spinellis.gr/FreeBSD/values.sh and 
>> post the resulting file as a reply to this message (this will avoid 
>> replicated effort).  The script generates a small process accounting file 
>> containing the results of a dozen simple commands.  It takes less than 10s to 
>> run.  If your machine runs with process accounting enabled, you will need to 
>> re-enable it after the script terminates (the script will tell you how).  I 
>> intend to make the data you send me part of the process accounting regression 
>> testing.
> I saw a SIGSEGV while this ran...

That's supposed to happen - look at the script.

Eric



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