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Subject: Monitoring a program
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:22:18 -0500
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Hi,

I would like to monitor a program execution. I intend to have a program (or daemon) that, whenever the target program (whose name is to be passed as a paramenter) starts (i.e when ps -C progname returns any process), gets statistics like cpu usage and store them on a file, finishing when the target program finishes. What would be an efficient way to do that?

Thanks,
Leonardo.