The utility sar is part of the sysstat package. Note the double ‘s’. Most articles/documentation state that the jobs should be run using cron. On Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 this no longer works, the utilities work, but the historical database is not collected nor stored. These systems require that systemd run the collector.
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Linux Performance Monitoring
Today, sar, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat.
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Zenity
While writing my error warning routines, I was pointed at zenity. Here are my notes …
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Raspbian on Virtual Box
I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …
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Ubuntu 22
This seems a bit unstable, actually a bit unfair but they have changed how they deal with bursting swap, and firefox at least uses snap and so I may need some more tools. Here are my notes …
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More on Ubuntu 20
This was originally written to collect a series of tips about augmenting the build, but I have a problem with stability and reboot. Here are my notes …
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Ubuntu 20 & Video codecs
Bother. Never as easy as you’d hope.
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Back to Ubuntu
I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up…
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Raspberry Pi and messages
I logged into find my disk too full to use. Why didn’t it tell me? Here are my notes.
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Elementary and Onedrive
This seems to have stopped working, here are my notes. I think I am using onedrive-d, but here are my notes. …
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Remote Desktop & Elementary OS
Been trying to access my laptop running Elementary using a remote desktop protocol and it’s harder than I’d want. I have not yet finished and so this documents how not to do it. Here are my notes. …
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Elementary OS & Printing
I decided to try and get printing to work on elementary, with my HP Envy 4527. Here are my notes …
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Raspberry Pi III
My third attempt to build a raspberry pi, it seemed easier to start a third page than refactor the last one. Here are my notes. I turned it off in August 22, and back on in Nov 2022. …
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About Porteus, yanf Linux
It’s meant to be small and fast, but I want to run it as a virtual box guest. I have suspended this project, but here are my notes.
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Elive (YANF LInux)
I was looking for a small and fast Linux, and chose to experiment with Elive. Here are my notes.
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