can't install iostat, mpstat on fedora core 1

sneakyimp · 09-10-2007, 05:56 PM

I have a box that's been running for about a year and a half nonstop. I'm trying to do some diagnostics to find the bottlenecks and realize it doesn't have iostat or mpstat on it. I tried:

Code:

yum install iostat

and got an error:

Code:

[root@mydomain /]# yum install iostat
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

I found this page which suggested a fix:
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/howto/2...-yum-404.shtml

but it doesn't find the new urls either:

Code:

[root@mydomain /]# yum install iostat
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

I know you're probably thinking 'fedora core 1?? he should upgrade!'. This is precisely what I am trying to do, I just wanted to get an idea of where my system bottlenecks are before investing in the new machine/setup costs/software, etc.

syg00 · 09-10-2007, 08:31 PM

iostat is part of sysstat - there is a rpm on the homepage for the sysstat package. See here; don't know how it'll work for you as I haven't touched Redhat/Fedora in years.

sneakyimp · 09-10-2007, 09:55 PM

Hm. I tried downloading source code and doing configure/make/install but haven't been able to get it to finish. There are a bunch of configuration options and apparently i'm getting them wrong. I haven't got the slightest notion of what to do with an RPM file. Any tips?

cojo · 09-10-2007, 10:45 PM

first make sure sysstat package is not install on your machine. If no, all your have to do is rpm -ivh package. This will install the rpm to your system. Make sure you download the right version for FC1 otherwise it will error out.

sneakyimp · 09-10-2007, 11:02 PM

Ok i got the rpm installed! googled around and found 'rpm -i filename.rpm'.

however, i still can't run sar...i get an error:

Code:

[root@mydomain root]# sar -u
Cannot open /var/log/sa/sa10: No such file or directory

iostat and mpstat work fine though.