.TH SYSSTAT 5 "SEPTEMBER 2010" Linux "Linux User's Manual" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
sysstat \- sysstat configuration file.
.SH DESCRIPTION
This file is read by
.BR sa1 (8)
and
.BR sa2 (8)
shell scripts from the sysstat's set of tools.
It consists of a sequence of shell variable assignments used to
configure sysstat logging.
The variables and their meanings are:
.TP
.B HISTORY
The number of days during which a daily data file or a report
should be kept. Data files or reports older than this number of
days will be removed by the
.BR sa2 (8)
shell script.

.TP
.B COMPRESSAFTER
Number of days after which daily data files are to be compressed,
either by gzip or bzip2.

.TP
.B SADC_OPTIONS
Options that should be passed to
.BR sadc (8).
With these options (see
.BR sadc (8)
manual page), you can select some additional data which are going to be saved in
daily data files.
These options are used only when a new data file is created. They will be
ignored with an already existing one.

.SH FILES
.IR /etc/sysstat/sysstat

.SH AUTHOR
Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR sadc (8),
.BR sa1 (8),
.BR sa2 (8)

.I http://pagesperso\-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/