Installation of sysstat

[Grimble]

I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of the
sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have been
installed.
Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send the appropriate
files?
Thanks,

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by Grimble
I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of the
sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have been
installed.
Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send the appropriate
files?
Thanks,

It's configured to use cron.

# rpm -q -l sysstat|grep -i -e cron -e read
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat
/etc/cron.hourly/sysstat
/usr/share/doc/sysstat/README.md

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Grimble]

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by Grimble
I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of the
sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have been
installed.
Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send the appropriate
files?
Thanks,

It's configured to use cron.
# rpm -q -l sysstat|grep -i -e cron -e read
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat
/etc/cron.hourly/sysstat
/usr/share/doc/sysstat/README.md
Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks, Dave. Is that a decision by the Mageia packagers? Because all
other references I've seen, including the README you referenced all use
systemd features.

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by Grimble

Post by David W. Hodgins

Post by Grimble
I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of the
sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have been
installed.
Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send the appropriate
files?
Thanks,

It's configured to use cron.
# rpm -q -l sysstat|grep -i -e cron -e read
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat
/etc/cron.hourly/sysstat
/usr/share/doc/sysstat/README.md
Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks, Dave. Is that a decision by the Mageia packagers? Because all
other references I've seen, including the README you referenced all use
systemd features.

It's one of a number of packages that have been present in Mageia since before the transition to
systemd started. While new versions have been merged into it, switching it to use the systemd
units hasn't been done.

Keep in mind that Mageia policy recommends such a transistion should include migrating from
the cron startup to systemd startup for the users who upgrade from prior versions, so it isn't
just selecting the systemd startup during package building. That could be done via documentation
(release notes) in a new Mageia release, but has not been done yet.

According to https://maintdb.mageia.org/sysstat the package does not have a dedicated
packager, which means it currently only gets updated when a cve is issued for a security
update.

I don't have a cauldron install any more (my desktop system died), so don't know if it has
been changed for Mageia 10. I haven't been following it to see what's changing.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Vincent Coen]

Hello Grimble!

Post by Grimble
I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of
the sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have
been installed. Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send
the appropriate files? Thanks,

Silly question may be - have you rebooted since installing ?



Vincent

[David W. Hodgins]

Post by Vincent Coen
Hello Grimble!

Post by Grimble
I installed sysstat-12.7.2-2.mga9.x86_64, but I can find no sign of
the sysstat.service file nor the timers that I believe should have
been installed. Can someone confirm the failure, or alternatively send
the appropriate files? Thanks,

Silly question may be - have you rebooted since installing ?

It doesn't have any components that run at boot, although since it uses cron hourly and daily,
crond.service must be enabled and running.

Check "systemctl status crond.service".

Regards, Dave Hodgins