runstat1

Synopsys

runstat [ -h ]

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

Overview

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.