NAME¶

runstat - collect statistics about execution of a process

SYNOPSYS¶

runstat [ -h ] runstat [ -d ] [ -f pathname ] command [ args ]

DESCRIPTION¶

runstat 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.

USAGE¶

-d

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

-f pathname

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".

-h

Prints some basic help.

SEE ALSO¶

runalarm(1), runlock(1), getrusage(2)

AUTHOR¶

runstat was written by Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@google.com>.

COPYRIGHT¶

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