sar command returns "End of system activity file unexpected".

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Issue

  • The sar command returns a message "End of system activity file unexpected" and fails.
# sar -f /var/log/sa/sa10 
Linux 3.10.0-1062.el7.x86_64 (server1) 04/10/2021 _x86_64_ (4 CPU)
End of system activity file unexpected
  • The customer collects information with sadc by executing cron on their environment.
$ cat /etc/cron.d/sysstat
# Run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
* * * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 60

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
  • kernel-3.10.0-1062.el7.x86_64
  • sysstat-10.1.5-18.el7.x86_64
  • sysstat-10.1.5-18.el7_7.1.x86_64
  • sysstat-10.1.5-19.el7.x86_64

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