libstatgrab-0.91

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# libstatgrab-0.91

## Introduction to libstatgrab

This is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network traffic, disk I/O, and more.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.91.tar.gz

- Download (FTP): ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.91.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: b906d312076ca9be3d5188edfe07f496

- Download size: 760 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 9.0 MB (with the test suite)

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (1.6 SBU with the test suite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libstatgrab

## Installation of libstatgrab

Install libstatgrab by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr   \
                --disable-static \
                --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libstatgrab-0.91 &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`--disable-static`: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

## Contents

Installed Programs: saidar, statgrab, statgrab-make-mrtg-config, and statgrab-make-mrtg-index
Installed Library: libstatgrab.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/libstatgrab-0.91

### Short Descriptions

saidar | is a curses-based tool for viewing system statistics.
statgrab | is a sysctl-style interface to system statistics.
statgrab-make-mrtg-config | generates MRTG configuration.
statgrab-make-mrtg-index | generates an XHTML index page from MRTG configuration files or stdin.
`libstatgrab.so` | contains the libstatgrab API functions.

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