Question about process loging

[Andrew Bacchi]

I don't know of any tool that will do that for you.  It shouldn't be 
very hard to write a simple shell or Perl script to watch for a process 
name.  Run 'ps' from a script, catch the process name, and resource use 
in a variable.  You chold run it from cron every few seconds.

Or see if the process has some mechanism that will write a log file. You 
could then see how often it is being run.  Using 'sar' you could match 
up the time of the process with the resources used.


ssevengor at tai.com.tr wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a software installed on my Red Hat enterprise linux 4, which is
>run by the users that login remotely. The point is that I want to know
>how often this software is used and during its usage how much of the
>resources are used by the software. Is there any tool or something
>like that except the standart unix linux commands like top,ps,...etc.
>or do I have to write a script how??
>
>Thanks to every body
>
>Serdar Sevengör
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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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