Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:03:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net> Cc: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sar Message-ID: <19990615160350.A76045@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906142357550.430-100000@bytor.rush.net>; from Pat Lynch on Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:59:40PM -0400 References: <199906142056.QAA15872@shell.monmouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906142357550.430-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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On Monday, 14 June 1999 at 23:59:40 -0400, Pat Lynch wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > >> According to slashdot: >> >>> SCO Open Sources System Activity Reporter >> >>> Posted by Hemos on Monday June 14, @01:14PM EDT >>> from the beginning-to-learn dept. >>> diabloii writes "SCO will license its System Activity Reporter (SAR) source >>> code to the open source community in cooperation with Starnix, Inc. SAR is >>> currently used to retrieve data for administering the UnixWare 7 System V >>> Release 5 (SVR5) kernel. SCO is hoping that the release of SAR will help >>> standardize kernel administrative. Read the press release here. Also more >>> info at freshmeat. " SAR will be released under the Mozilla license, under >>> the 2nd phase of the release. In the first phase, it will be ported to *BSD >>> and Linux, with the help of Starnix. >> >> Folks, this looks like a good thing for Sys Admins. > > The SCO people are pretty knowledgable (I have a few people I know working > in thier "skunkware" department). Ron Record himself is *BSD friendly as > well as my friend Kean, who was the the only "SCOboy" at the > FreeBSD dinner at USENIX =) Right. I spoke to Ron about sar (amongst other things) at USENIX. I've also tried to bludgeon somebody into porting sar (I won't mention his name in order to give him a respectable way out if he changes his mind). Does anybody else want to have a go? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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