Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: From: "Peter Moulding" To: Subject: RE: Where is iostat? Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:36:52 +1000 Organization: TEDIS Pty Ltd Message-ID: <001301c1f0b9$0d616ff0$8c00a8c0@herbert.tedis.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20020430215455.02c91500@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hello Larry, There are a lot of packages to search. I looked in cygwin.com/packages and searched everyone that looked like a system or utility package plus a random assortment of other packages. Because iostat was listed in the source, I assumed it would be compiled somewhere. I did not find anything saying there are things supplied in source but not binary. Thank you for telling me that. I use Cygwin to make NT and Windows 2000 machines similar to Linux and Unix boxes so people trained on Unix can administer a mixture of servers without having to learn new skills. It is the equivalent of installing Samba on a Unix server so the Unix server will fit in to a mixed environment. I am finding out that some of the Unix commands do different things on each version of Unix and even when they perform the same function, they may have different, incompatible options and completely different display contents. Getting the commands to work on something as standard as NT should be easier than working with a 'standard' operating system that has 35* different standards. Hopefully one day the POSIX standard will be improved so a large number of Unix commands will be included in NT and it's descendents. Hopefully the standard will specify both the command options and the command output format so the command will work the same on all versions of Linux and Unix. Until perfection happens, I just wrap a PHP script around the Unix command to produce a standard result that looks the same and works the same on every OS. If Cygwin does no have iostat but does have something else displaying the same information, I can run up an iostat command in PHP. Thank you for explaining the difference between the source and the package contents. Peter *I did some work for a Unix services company that had 35 different Unix distributions to support before they started supporting Linux. -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com] Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 12:04 PM To: pmoulding AT tedis DOT com DOT au; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Where is iostat? Peter, I think David was pointing you to the FAQ so that you would find http://cygwin.com/packages/. This is the way to find out what packages are in Cygwin. It's also the way to search the packages for strings of interest, in this case, iostat. Is this what you did? I'm guessing not, though I'm a bit surprised that you somehow missed it. What threw you off? Anyway, iostat only shows up in 1 package, cygwin-1.3.10-1-src. This is not a tool but rather the source implementation from newlib (i.e. the Cygwin C library). This should tell you that you can stop downloading packages and settle with the notion that iostat is not available in the current packages. Sorry. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 08:16 PM 4/30/2002, Peter Moulding wrote: >Hello David, >Neither page mentions iostat. Lots of programs are bundled in to >packages where the package description mentions only a few or none of >the enclosed programs. > >I found iostat listed in a Cygwin Web page a few days ago but did not >bookmark the page. The page listed a directory structure that did not >match anything in Cygwin and none of the path components matched package >names. > >That leaves me with one entry on the Cygwin site that mentioned an >iostat.h file but nothing in the download. Through trial and error, I >currently have 182 Mb of Cygwin installed, over 12,000 files, but still >no iostat. Surely there must be an easier way. There must be a file that >lists the contents of packages. > >Peter > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk] >Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 6:58 PM >To: pmoulding AT tedis DOT com DOT au >Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >Subject: Where is iostat? > >On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, Peter Moulding writes: > > I cannot find iostat and some other commands in Cygwin. How do you >find > > out which package contains a command? > >Read the Cygwin FAQ entry "Which packages should I download?". Or >find "Package Listing" on the Cygwin home page. > >Not too hard, really. > >David > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/