Bug 34473

Summary:	sa1 in adm crontab cannot write to /var/log/sa root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <borro04>
Component:	sysstat	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-04-03 11:49:00 UTC

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adm crontab contains /usr/lib/sa/sa1 and /usr/lib/sa/sa2
/var/log/sa owned by root, the adm user cannot write its crontab 
information to /var/log/sa

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add sa1 and sa2 to 'adm' crontab
2.schedule sa1 to run every 5 minutes
3.check /var/log/sa, not files created

	

Actual Results:  no file created by sa1
mail output Cannot open /var/log/sa/sa07: Permission denied

Expected Results:  /var/log/sa/sa07 or the current date should exist
but it cannot because by default, /var/log/sa is owned by root

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-04-03 16:09:06 UTC

sa1 and sa2 are already run in /etc/cron.hourly/sysstat and
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat respectively.  They are run as root, not adm, so there
is no problem.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-04-03 16:17:05 UTC

So I should not schedule sa1 or sa2 in adm's crontab.
Is this how Red Hat intends for sar to be run, only by root?

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-04-03 16:49:13 UTC

I will look at sysstat-3.2.4 to see if this changed.
I was unable to get sa03 or sa02 file for today or yesterday with sysstat-3.2.4.
I also have not discovered all the proper uses for this revision.
This has drastically different than the way I have used sar on any platform.

Now I don't have to deal with crontab anymore.
Sar just works.

Thanks for the comments.