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6 sa2 - Create a report from the current standard system activity daily
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15 The sa2 command is a shell procedure variant of the sar command which
16 writes a daily report in the sarDD or the sarYYYYMMDD file, where YYYY
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19 tory. The sa2 command will also remove reports more than one week old
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24 The sa2 command accepts most of the flags and parameters of the sar
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27 The sa2 command is designed to be started automatically by the cron
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45 The standard system activity daily report files and their de‐
46 fault location. YYYY stands for the current year, MM for the
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55 sar(1), sadc(8), sa1(8), sadf(1), sysstat(5)
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