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17 | <ul> | |
18 | <li> | |
19 | < | <a href="#news">News</a> |
19 | > | <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
20 | </li> | |
21 | <li> | |
22 | < | <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
22 | > | <a href="#news">News</a> |
23 | </li> | |
24 | <li> | |
25 | <a href="#download">Downloading</a> | |
26 | </li> | |
27 | <li> | |
28 | + | <a href="#bindings">Language Bindings</a> |
29 | + | </li> |
30 | + | <li> |
31 | + | <a href="#packages">Packages</a> |
32 | + | </li> |
33 | + | <li> |
34 | <a href="#development">Development</a> | |
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43 | </div> | |
44 | <h2> | |
45 | + | <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
46 | + | </h2> |
47 | + | <p> |
48 | + | libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform |
49 | + | access to statistics about the system on which it's run. |
50 | + | It's written in C and presents a selection of useful |
51 | + | interfaces which can be used to access key system |
52 | + | statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU |
53 | + | usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, |
54 | + | network traffic, disk I/O, and more. |
55 | + | </p> |
56 | + | <p> |
57 | + | The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux |
58 | + | 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, |
59 | + | DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend |
60 | + | this to include as many operating systems as possible. |
61 | + | </p> |
62 | + | <p> |
63 | + | The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The |
64 | + | first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a |
65 | + | curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the |
66 | + | system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style |
67 | + | interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This |
68 | + | extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or |
69 | + | anything else that can't easily make C function calls. |
70 | + | Included with statgrab is a script to generate an |
71 | + | <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file |
72 | + | to use statgrab. |
73 | + | </p> |
74 | + | <h2> |
75 | <a id="news">News</a> | |
76 | </h2> | |
77 | <p> | |
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80 | <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>? | |
81 | </p> | |
82 | <h3> | |
83 | < | Thursday 20 May 2004 |
83 | > | Tuesday 26 April 2005 |
84 | </h3> | |
85 | <p> | |
86 | < | Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
87 | < | Download it |
52 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.10.tar.gz"> |
53 | < | here</a>. |
86 | > | Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now |
87 | > | <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab/">available</a>. |
88 | </p> | |
89 | <p> | |
90 | < | This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names |
91 | < | of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although |
92 | < | this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run |
93 | < | we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However, |
94 | < | for those who still need the old functions we have provided |
61 | < | compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details. |
90 | > | Thanks to the work of |
91 | > | <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a> |
92 | > | libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our |
93 | > | unofficial debian packages which will no longer be |
94 | > | updated. |
95 | </p> | |
63 | – | <p> |
64 | – | The other main change in this release is a new function to |
65 | – | provide full details on currently running processes. See the |
66 | – | documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with |
67 | – | this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting |
68 | – | process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced |
69 | – | error reporting functions that allow calling applications to |
70 | – | see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error. |
71 | – | </p> |
72 | – | <p> |
73 | – | Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots |
74 | – | of areas of the code. This release does not include the python |
75 | – | bindings - they're now available as their own project called |
76 | – | <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>. |
77 | – | </p> |
96 | <h3> | |
97 | < | Sunday 21 March 2004 |
97 | > | Thursday 3 March 2005 |
98 | </h3> | |
99 | <p> | |
100 | < | pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python |
101 | < | bindings, has been released. Check out it's |
84 | < | <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>. |
100 | > | Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
101 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
102 | </p> | |
86 | – | <h3> |
87 | – | Wednesday 10 March 2004 |
88 | – | </h3> |
103 | <p> | |
104 | < | Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
105 | < | Download it |
106 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz"> |
107 | < | here</a>. |
104 | > | This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex |
105 | > | settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and |
106 | > | full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative |
107 | > | filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were |
108 | > | ignored. These have all been fixed. |
109 | </p> | |
95 | – | <p> |
96 | – | This release brings new features and new platforms. We've |
97 | – | added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed, |
98 | – | etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o |
99 | – | errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for |
100 | – | OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done |
101 | – | to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated |
102 | – | privileges. See the NEWS file for more information. |
103 | – | </p> |
110 | <h3> | |
111 | < | Wednesday 11 February 2004 |
111 | > | Friday 12 November 2004 |
112 | </h3> | |
113 | <p> | |
114 | < | Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
115 | < | Download it |
110 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz"> |
111 | < | here</a>. |
114 | > | Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
115 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
116 | </p> | |
117 | <p> | |
118 | < | The main focus of this release is adding support for |
119 | < | Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use |
116 | < | libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras |
117 | < | directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the |
118 | < | code. |
118 | > | This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and |
119 | > | also fixes a few other minor issues. |
120 | </p> | |
121 | <h3> | |
122 | < | Wednesday 21 January 2004 |
122 | > | Wednesday 25 August 2004 |
123 | </h3> | |
124 | <p> | |
125 | < | Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
126 | < | Download it |
126 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz"> |
127 | < | here</a>. |
125 | > | Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
126 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
127 | </p> | |
128 | <p> | |
129 | < | This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file |
130 | < | descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant |
131 | < | speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along |
133 | < | with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the |
134 | < | library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now |
135 | < | released under the LGPL instead of the GPL. |
129 | > | This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and |
130 | > | adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in |
131 | > | the tarball for more details. |
132 | </p> | |
133 | <h3> | |
134 | < | Tuesday 6 January 2004 |
134 | > | Tuesday 27 July 2004 |
135 | </h3> | |
136 | <p> | |
137 | < | Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
138 | < | Download it |
143 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz"> |
144 | < | here</a>. |
137 | > | Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
138 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
139 | </p> | |
140 | <p> | |
141 | < | This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial |
142 | < | support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk |
149 | < | names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names. |
150 | < | There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in |
151 | < | various places. Finally, a new function has been added to |
152 | < | make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab |
153 | < | may require on some operating systems. |
141 | > | This release fixes a problem with the shared library |
142 | > | version number in the last release. |
143 | </p> | |
144 | <h3> | |
145 | < | Wednesday 22 October 2003 |
145 | > | Monday 26 July 2004 |
146 | </h3> | |
147 | <p> | |
148 | < | Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
149 | < | Download it |
161 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz"> |
162 | < | here</a>. |
148 | > | Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
149 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
150 | </p> | |
151 | <p> | |
152 | < | The most significant change in this release is support for |
153 | < | NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been |
154 | < | optimised, and an initialise function has been added to |
155 | < | allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab |
156 | < | needs. The list of known file systems has been increased, |
157 | < | and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. |
158 | < | Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't |
159 | < | get all the statistics. |
152 | > | This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes. |
153 | > | We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and |
154 | > | NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab |
155 | > | that broke network statistics on Solaris. New |
156 | > | variables have been added to the pkg-config file to |
157 | > | suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and |
158 | > | we've added error reporting functions that store errno |
159 | > | values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the |
160 | > | NEWS file. |
161 | </p> | |
162 | <h3> | |
163 | < | Saturday 18 October 2003 |
163 | > | Thursday 20 May 2004 |
164 | </h3> | |
165 | <p> | |
166 | < | Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
167 | < | Download it |
180 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz"> |
181 | < | here</a>. |
166 | > | Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
167 | > | Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
168 | </p> | |
169 | <p> | |
170 | < | This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and |
171 | < | some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some |
172 | < | fixes to saidar, and statgrab. |
170 | > | This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names |
171 | > | of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although |
172 | > | this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run |
173 | > | we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However, |
174 | > | for those who still need the old functions we have provided |
175 | > | compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details. |
176 | </p> | |
188 | – | <h3> |
189 | – | Friday 10 October 2003 |
190 | – | </h3> |
177 | <p> | |
178 | < | Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
179 | < | You can download it from our mirror site |
180 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz"> |
181 | < | here</a>. |
178 | > | The other main change in this release is a new function to |
179 | > | provide full details on currently running processes. See the |
180 | > | documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with |
181 | > | this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting |
182 | > | process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced |
183 | > | error reporting functions that allow calling applications to |
184 | > | see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error. |
185 | </p> | |
186 | <p> | |
187 | < | This release includes some exciting new tools, support for |
188 | < | FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major |
189 | < | bugfixes and packaging enhancements. |
187 | > | Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots |
188 | > | of areas of the code. This release does not include the python |
189 | > | bindings - they're now available as their own project called |
190 | > | <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>. |
191 | </p> | |
192 | <h3> | |
193 | < | Tuesday 09 September 2003 |
193 | > | Sunday 21 March 2004 |
194 | </h3> | |
195 | <p> | |
196 | < | We're pleased to announce a new release of |
197 | < | libstatgrab.<br /> |
198 | < | You can download version 0.5.1 from |
209 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz"> |
210 | < | here</a>. |
196 | > | pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python |
197 | > | bindings, has been released. Check out it's |
198 | > | <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>. |
199 | </p> | |
200 | < | <h3> |
201 | < | Monday 25 August 2003 |
202 | < | </h3> |
200 | > | <h2> |
201 | > | <a id="download">Downloading</a> |
202 | > | </h2> |
203 | <p> | |
204 | < | We're pleased to announce a new release of |
205 | < | libstatgrab.<br /> |
206 | < | You can download version 0.5 from |
207 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz"> |
220 | < | here</a>. |
204 | > | The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from |
205 | > | our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>. |
206 | > | All downloads are pgp signed using our |
207 | > | <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>. |
208 | </p> | |
209 | <p> | |
210 | < | This release provides both documentation and examples, |
211 | < | which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay |
225 | < | tuned for the next release with some useful tools. |
210 | > | For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL |
211 | > | files contained within the archive. |
212 | </p> | |
213 | <h2> | |
214 | < | <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
214 | > | <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a> |
215 | </h2> | |
216 | + | <ul> |
217 | + | <li> |
218 | + | <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a> |
219 | + | </li> |
220 | + | <li> |
221 | + | <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a> |
222 | + | </li> |
223 | + | <li> |
224 | + | <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a> |
225 | + | </li> |
226 | + | </ul> |
227 | <p> | |
228 | < | libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform |
229 | < | access to statistics about the system on which it's run. |
230 | < | It's written in C and presents a selection of useful |
231 | < | interfaces which can be used to access key system |
232 | < | statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU |
236 | < | usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, |
237 | < | network traffic, disk I/O, and more. |
228 | > | Here are links to bindings for higher level languages |
229 | > | that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written |
230 | > | a binding for another language, please get |
231 | > | <a href="mailto:dev@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we |
232 | > | can add a link here. |
233 | </p> | |
239 | – | <p> |
240 | – | The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux |
241 | – | 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, |
242 | – | DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to |
243 | – | include as many operating systems as possible. |
244 | – | </p> |
245 | – | <p> |
246 | – | The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The |
247 | – | first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a |
248 | – | curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the |
249 | – | system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style |
250 | – | interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This |
251 | – | extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or |
252 | – | anything else that can't easily make C function calls. |
253 | – | Included with statgrab is a script to generate an |
254 | – | <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file |
255 | – | to use statgrab. |
256 | – | </p> |
234 | <h2> | |
235 | < | <a id="download">Downloading</a> |
235 | > | <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a> |
236 | </h2> | |
237 | + | <ul> |
238 | + | <li> |
239 | + | <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&stype=all">FreeBSD</a> |
240 | + | </li> |
241 | + | <li> |
242 | + | <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a> |
243 | + | </li> |
244 | + | <li> |
245 | + | <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a> |
246 | + | </li> |
247 | + | <li> |
248 | + | <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab/">Debian</a> |
249 | + | </li> |
250 | + | <li> |
251 | + | <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a> |
252 | + | </li> |
253 | + | </ul> |
254 | <p> | |
255 | < | The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from |
256 | < | our primary download |
257 | < | <a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/"> |
264 | < | mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our |
265 | < | <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>. |
255 | > | These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab |
256 | > | that you can get for your favourite operating system. If |
257 | > | we've missed any out, please let us know. |
258 | </p> | |
259 | <p> | |
260 | < | For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL |
261 | < | files contained within the archive. If you're using |
270 | < | <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make |
271 | < | use of the |
272 | < | <a href="http://www.freshports.org/devel/libstatgrab"> |
273 | < | devel/libstatgrab</a> port to install libstatgrab for you. |
260 | > | We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating |
261 | > | to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them. |
262 | </p> | |
263 | + | <p> |
264 | + | Several attempts were made to submit a port to the |
265 | + | OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking |
266 | + | it. You can find it |
267 | + | <a href="http://ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/tmp/libstatgrab-0.11-openbsd-port.tar.gz"> |
268 | + | here</a>. |
269 | + | </p> |
270 | <h2> | |
271 | <a id="development">Development</a> | |
272 | </h2> | |
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277 | </ul> | |
278 | <p> | |
279 | < | We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system. |
279 | > | We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system. |
280 | Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week. | |
281 | < | For more information on our CVS setup see our |
281 | > | For more information on our CVS setup see our |
282 | <a href="/cvs.xhtml">CVS page</a>. | |
283 | </p> | |
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