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.TH RUNSTAT 1 "October 18, 2010" "Google, Inc."

.SH NAME

runstat \- collect statistics about execution of a process

.SH SYNOPSYS

\fBrunstat\fR [ \fB-h\fR ]

\fBrunstat\fR [ \fB-d\fR ] [ \fB-f \fIpathname\fR ] \fIcommand\fR [ \fIargs\fR ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

\fBrunstat\fR tries to execute a command in a subprocess, and upon
termination of the subprocess collects some statistics about that
subprocess, and writes them to a file.

These statistics include time of execution, exit status, and elapsed
time to execute, as well as use of various OS resources.

.SH USAGE

.TP
\fB-d\fR

Debug mode; send log messages to standard error as well as to the
system log.

.TP

\fB-f \fIpathname\fR

Specifies the pathname of the file to save the statistics to.  The default
is to create a file in /tmp/cronutils-$USER with the name of the
command, and suffix ".stat".

.TP
\fB-h\fR

Prints some basic help.

.SH SEE ALSO

\fBrunalarm\fR(1), \fBrunlock\fR(1), \fBgetrusage\fR(2)

.SH AUTHOR

\fBrunstat\fR was written by Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@google.com>.

.SH COPYRIGHT

This program is copyright (C) 2010 Google, Inc.
.PP
It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0