Invalid system activity file (corrupt).
Issue
- On my server, attempting to read sar output results in the following error:
for f in /var/log/sa/sa[0-9]* ; do if sar -A -t -f "$f" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo " Valid system activity file: $f"; elif sar -A -t --legacy -f "$f" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo " Legacy system activity file: $f" ; else echo "Invalid system activity file: $f" ; fi ; done
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa01
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa02
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa03
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa04
Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa05
Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa06
Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa07
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa08
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa09
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa10
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa11
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa12
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa13
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa14
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa15
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa16
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa17
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa18
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa20
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa21
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa22
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa23
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa24
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa25
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa26
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa27
Valid system activity file: /var/log/sa/sa28
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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