Bug 272701

Summary: sar no longer has -p flag
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: bob bownes <bownes>
Component: sysstatAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Fixed In Version: sysstat-5.0.5-16.rhel4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description bob bownes 2007-08-31 18:23:05 UTC 
somewhere between RHEL3 update 8 and RHEL4 update 4, sar lost the -p (pretty 
print) flag. This breaks a number of scripts and is hampering efforts to move 
from 3_8 to 4_4 or later.

Can we get it back? 


from the 3 update 8 man page:

       -p     Pretty-print device names.  By  default  names  are  printed  as
              devn-m  where  n  and  m are the major and minor numbers for the
              device.  Use of this option displays the names of the devices as
              they  (should)  appear in /dev.  Name mappings are controlled by
              /etc/sysconfig/sysstat.ioconf.
Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2008-02-27 12:53:53 UTC 
This bug is fixed in sysstat-5.0.5-16.rhel4.