[SunHELP] Running Sar out of cron

[Ben Ricker]

I have run into this weird problem when running sar on a Solaris 8 box
(5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2). I am running it out
of root's cron (I ran into permission issues running it out of sys'
cron). Here is the line in cron:

0       *       *       *       0-6     /usr/lib/sa/sa1
20,40   8-17    *       *       1-5     /usr/lib/sa/sa1
5       18      *       *       1-5     /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A

Here is the error logged to /var/cron/log:

! cron audit problem. job failed (/usr/lib/sa/sa1) for user root Fri Apr 12 14:40:00 2002
>  CMD: /usr/lib/sa/sa1

I can run it as root from command line, but as you can see, the error is
MOST unhelpful. I have setup sar on a number of Solaris boxes and had no
problem. Any suggestions?

One more thing: I tried running it from a script using 'su' to root but
the error was the same.

Ben Ricker
Web Security System Administrator
Wellinx.com