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diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man8/sa2.8 b/upstream/archlinux/man8/sa2.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2a2de11a --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/archlinux/man8/sa2.8 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.\" sa2 manual page - (C) 1999-2020 Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr) +.TH SA2 8 "AUGUST 2023" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*- +.SH NAME +sa2 \- Create a report from the current standard system activity daily data file. + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B /usr/lib/sa/sa2 + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.RB "The " "sa2 " "command is a shell procedure variant of the " "sar" +command which writes a daily report in the +.IR "sarDD " "or the " "sarYYYYMMDD " "file, where" +.IR "YYYY " "stands for the current year, " "MM " "for the current month and " "DD" +for the current day. By default the report is saved in the +.I /var/log/sa +directory. The +.B sa2 +command will also remove reports more than one week old by default. +You can however keep reports for a longer (or a shorter) period by setting the +.B HISTORY +environment variable. Read the +.BR "sysstat" "(5) manual page for details." +.PP +.RB "The " "sa2 " "command accepts most of the flags and parameters of the " "sar " "command." +.PP +.RB "The " "sa2 " "command is designed to be started automatically by the " "cron " "command." + +.SH EXAMPLES +.RB "To run the " "sa2" +command daily, place the following entry in your root crontab file: + +.B 5 19 * * 1\-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 \-A + +This will generate by default a daily report called +.IR "sarDD " "in the" +.I /var/log/sa +directory, where the +.IR "DD " "parameter is a number representing the day of the month." + +.SH FILES +.I /var/log/sa/sarDD +.br +.I /var/log/sa/sarYYYYMMDD +.RS +The standard system activity daily report files and their default location. +.IR "YYYY " "stands for the current year, " "MM " "for the current month and " "DD " "for the current day." + +.SH AUTHOR +Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr) + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR "sar" "(1), " "sadc" "(8), " "sa1" "(8), " "sadf" "(1), " "sysstat" "(5)" +.PP +.I https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat +.br +.I https://sysstat.github.io/ |