From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 23:34: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3E614F0C for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:33:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA19591; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:03:54 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA76067; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:03:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:03:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Pat Lynch Cc: Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sar Message-ID: <19990615160350.A76045@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199906142056.QAA15872@shell.monmouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Pat Lynch on Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:59:40PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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