Follow documentation http://perso.orange.fr/sebastien.godard/documentation.html for configuring sysstat need cron.d and init.d files I atach patch to ebuild and init.d script, crond file and crontab.example take from distribution, exists crontab.example from $FILESDIR not use (may delete)
Created attachment 114711 [details] sysstat.init.d sysstat.init.d
Created attachment 114713 [details, diff] sysstat-7.0.4-r1.ebuild.patch sysstat-7.0.4-r1.ebuild.patch also in this patch use ecompress instead gzip see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171601
Created attachment 114715 [details, diff] sysstat-7.0.4-r1.ebuild.patch sysstat-7.0.4-r1.ebuild.patch fix sysstat.crond install with right perms
Fixed in CVS, thankies :)
This patch has several problems. Firstly, sysstat.crond.in is merely a crontab example (i.e. cronjob fields that one might choose to put in one's system or root crontab) and should not be installed as a shell script in /etc/cron.d/sysstat without at the very least a big fat warning. Secondly, as an example it doesn't work for sys-process/dcron because dcron doesn't accept or use the user field on a cronjob line like some other cron interpretations, and proceeds to send messages like these: ------ From: "root@epia" <root@epia> To: root Subject: cron: root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 -d 1 1 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:00:06 +0200 /bin/sh: root: command not found ------ As an aside, dcron fails to ignore comments (lines starting with #) in that file as well. Thirdly, these changes seem to have been implemented in an ebuild (a revision bump) that went straight to stable, apparently with very little testing.
I removed the two lines in the ebuild which installed sysstat.crond: Note that the same file is still installed to /usr/share/doc/sysstat-7.0.4/crontab.example(.bz2). --- sysstat-7.0.4-r2.ebuild 2007/05/31 10:08:50 1.1 +++ sysstat-7.0.4-r2.ebuild 2007/06/08 11:03:52 1.2 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 -# $Header: /var/www/viewcvs.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-admin/sysstat/sysstat-7.0.4-r2.ebuild,v 1.1 2007/05/31 10:08:50 jokey Exp $ +# $Header: /var/www/viewcvs.gentoo.org/raw_cvs/gentoo-x86/app-admin/sysstat/sysstat-7.0.4-r2.ebuild,v 1.2 2007/06/08 11:03:52 jer Exp $ inherit multilib @@ -53,7 +53,5 @@ rm "${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/COPYING" ecompress "${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/"*[^mz] newdoc sysstat.crond.sample crontab.example - insinto /etc/cron.d - newins sysstat.crond sysstat newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/sysstat.init.d sysstat }
(In reply to comment #6) > I removed the two lines in the ebuild which installed sysstat.crond: > > Note that the same file is still installed to > /usr/share/doc/sysstat-7.0.4/crontab.example(.bz2). Hi Jeroen, Is it possible to create a useflag for this, like sys-apps/pciutils and sys-apps/usbutils?
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I removed the two lines in the ebuild which installed sysstat.crond: > > > > Note that the same file is still installed to > > /usr/share/doc/sysstat-7.0.4/crontab.example(.bz2). > > Hi Jeroen, > > Is it possible to create a useflag for this, like sys-apps/pciutils and > sys-apps/usbutils? Hardly. sys-apps/pciutils:network-cron - Monthly cronjob the update-pciids script sys-apps/usbutils:network-cron - Monthly cronjob the update-usbids script These cronjobs are being installed in /etc/cron.monthly and are run each month. The cronjobs in the example are supposed to be run every 10 minutes, so it's better to set them up in the crontab. Automating this is a matter of runtime configuration, IMHO.
