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Re: [pcp] pmrep: rename -R to -W

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Subject: Re: [pcp] pmrep: rename -R to -W
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:07:25 -0500 (EST)
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Thread-topic: pmrep: rename -R to -W

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> > 
> > Hmm, this looks alot like -T with a relative end point.  So, we should
> > not need neither of these (-R / -W) options ...?
> 
> hmm, good point, I saw messages in the past time window options not
> being supported with other than archives but I was probably using
> something like -S or -T @10:00 at that time and mistakenly thought -T 2s
> is not supported either. -R is used by pmcollectl and -T by pmnewlog for
> this so -W is certainly not optimal.

Yeah - pmcollectl is also trying to mimic upstream collectl arguments
as much as it can, rather than follow pcp conventions.

> Agreed, but I haven't been able to run pmrep QA tests on my system so
> far (as non-root). I would have hoped something like configure && make
> && make install && check 1069 would have worked but it seemed not to be

That should work (well, "cd qa" before "./check 1069")...

> the case. Any guidance on this area would be helpful.

(send thru details of what failed?)

See qa/README too, but all QA testing must be run as non-root, though
sudo access is required by many of the tests.

cheers.

--
Nathan

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