Re: DBAmon post

} Jack Parker, in your mail you wrote: } > Here is the promised DBAmon. Walt shar'ed it (thank you Walt). Please } > let me know your comments - what we can do to improve it. There are a } > couple of readme files which should explain things. If they don't - write. } } Jack, } } This is a very cool utility. I have been hammering around with } different aliases and shell scripts to monitor the engine. Thanks for } posting this. } } I am also getting compulsive about converting this type of utility to } a Perl script. If I do, I will copy you with the result. } } OK, one question. What the heck is the -k flag for sort? I have not } found this under AIX or SCO or Sun-OS.... Oops! A non-standard kind of thing. -k is the field your going to sort on, which is a pre-requisite to 'join'ing. I have not been very happy with that section of code (the locks/buffers/latches section), but it hasn't been an issue here yet, whereas once or twice it has pointed out Klingon processes. j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Contractor | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| I've forgotten more than jparker@hpbs2561.boi.hp.com | I ever knew (208) 323-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | _____________________________________________________________________________