Summary of SAR

I just wanted to thank everyone...and there was a lot, that responded.
Your info was useful and I got SAR running.  Thought I would just
compile info out of the responses and pass it on down the line.  

SAR not running: ...........check the following 
Make sure lines in the SYS crontab are uncommented.  (don't edit the
crontab file under /var/spool/cron/crontabs) 

# crontab -l sys 
#ident  "@(#)sys        1.5     92/07/14 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.2   */ 
# The sys crontab should be used to do performance collection. See cron 
# and performance manual pages for details on startup. 
0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 
20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 
5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A 

Go to /var/adm and make sure your sa file permissions look like this: 
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      sys          512 Dec 12 00:00 sa 

Make sure your SYS in the /etc/passwd looks something like this: 
sys:x:3:3::/:       (keep an eye out for something like a noshell) 

Make sure the sys user entry in the /etc/shadow file contain the string
"NP" not *LK*. 

Check your perf file: 
# pwd 
/etc/init.d 
# cat perf 
#!/sbin/sh 
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T. 
# All rights reserved. 
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T 
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any 
# actual or intended publication of such source code. 
# Copyright (c) 1997 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
# All rights reserved. 
#ident  "@(#)perf.sh    1.7     97/12/08 SMI" 
# Uncomment the following lines to enable system activity data
gathering. 
 if [ -z "$_INIT_RUN_LEVEL" ]; then 
        set -- `/usr/bin/who -r` 
        _INIT_RUN_LEVEL="$7" 
        _INIT_RUN_NPREV="$8" 
        _INIT_PREV_LEVEL="$9" 
 fi 

 if [ $_INIT_RUN_LEVEL -ge 2 -a $_INIT_RUN_LEVEL -le 4 -a \ 
     $_INIT_RUN_NPREV -eq 0 -a \( $_INIT_PREV_LEVEL = 1 -o \ 
     $_INIT_PREV_LEVEL = S \) ]; then 

        /usr/bin/su sys -c "/usr/lib/sa/sadc /var/adm/sa/sa`date +%d`" 

.....then do a  ./perf start 

Go to your /usr/lib/sa and make sure they look something like this: 
# cd /usr/lib/sa 
# ls -la 
total 54 
drwxrwxr-x   2 adm      bin          512 Jul  3  2002 . 
drwxr-xr-x  62 root     bin        13312 Jun  8  2003 .. 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          492 Jan  5  2000 sa1 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          555 Jan  5  2000 sa2 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        10508 Nov  2  2001 sadc 


John Kompare 
Unix System Administrator (USA) 
McKesson Technology Services (MTS) 
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Dubuque, IA-52001 

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