How to get process scheduler history in Solaris? - process

I would like to know if there is way to get the process sheduler history in Solaris operating system. The output may have the following details.
user : user name who invoked the process
name : name of the process / command used to invoke the process
loc : location or path of the binary
pid : process id
event: event happened to the process (init, suspend or end)
time : time the event happend
date : date the event happeed
I'm interested to hear if any such thing available for other OS as well.

You might implement that with a dtrace script leveraging the proc provider (proc:::exec-success, proc:::exit and proc:::signal_handle).
Your event list looks dubious, should probably be at least "start,suspend,resume and exit"

You want the audit feature of Solaris. man audit and associated utilities, auditconfig etc

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Jenkins Job information

How to get below mentioned job information by using Jenkins api or some other command line option.
Time-stamp of last job that succeeded.
Time-stamp of last job that failed.
I looked in to this API but its giving only build info but not the time stamp i.e at what time and date information when this build failed of succeeded.
http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/model/Job.html
You do this by using the method getLastSuccessfulBuild() and getLastFailedBuild() on Job and then asking each one for their timestamp. E.g. there is no methods for doing this directly on the Job node, instead you need multiple methods.
So, using, for example, the XML API, it would look something like this:
https://<JENKINS_URL>/job/<JOB_NAME>/api/xml?tree=lastSuccessfulBuild[timestamp],lastFailedBuild[timestamp]
In my case this gives me:
<freeStyleProject _class="hudson.model.FreeStyleProject">
<lastFailedBuild _class="hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild">
<timestamp>1484291786712</timestamp>
</lastFailedBuild>
<lastSuccessfulBuild _class="hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild">
<timestamp>1486285440897</timestamp>
</lastSuccessfulBuild>
</freeStyleProject>

MQL4 How To Detect Status During Change of Account (Completed Downloading of Historical Trades)

In MT4, there exists a stage/state: when we switch from AccountA to AccountB, when Connection is established and init() and start() are triggered by MT4; but before the "blinnnggg" (sound) when all the historical/outstanding trades are loaded from Server.
Switch Account>Establish Connection>Trigger Init()/Start() events>Start Downloading of Outstanding/Historical trades>Completed Downloading (issue "bliinng" sound).
I need to know (in MQL4) that all the trades are completed downloaded from the tradeServer --to know that the account is truly empty -vs- still downloading history from tradeServer.
Any pointer will be appreciated. I've explored IsTradeAllowed() IsContextBusy() and IsConnected(). All these are in "normal" state and the init() and start() events are all fired ok. But I cannot figure out if the history/outstanding trade lists has completed downloading.
UPDATE: The final workaround I finally implemented was to use the OrdersHistoryTotal(). Apparently this number will be ZERO (0) during downloading of order history. And it will NEVER be zero (due to initial deposit). So, I ended-up using this as a "flag".
Observation
As the problem was posted, there seems no such "integrated" method for MT4-Terminal.
IsTradeAllowed() reflects an administrative state of the account/access to the execution of the Trading Services { IsTradeAllowed | !IsTradeAllowed }
IsConnected() reflects a technical state of the visibility / login credentials / connection used upon an attempt to setup/maintain an online connection between a localhost <-> Server { IsConnected() | !IsConnected() }
init() {...} is a one-stop setup facility, that is/was being called once an MT4-programme { ExpertAdvisor | Script | TechnicalIndicator } was launched on a localhost machine. This facility is strongly advised to be non-blocking and non-re-entrant. A change from the user account_A to another user account_B is typically ( via an MT4-configuration options ) a reason to stop an execution of a previously loaded MQL4-code ( be it an EA / a Script / a Technical Indicator ) )
start() {...} is an event-handler facility, that endlessly waits, for a next occurrence of an FX-Market Event appearance ( being propagated down the line by the Broker MT4-Server automation ) that is being announced via an established connection downwards, to the MT4-Terminal process, being run on a localhost machine.
A Workaround Solution
As understood, the problem may be detected and handled indirectly.
While the MT4 platform seems to have no direct method to distinguish between the complete / in-complete refresh of the list of { current | historical } trades, let me propose a method of an indirect detection thereof.
Try to launch a "signal"-trade ( a pending order, placed geometrically well far away, in the PriceDOMAIN, from the current Ask/Bid-levels ).
Once this trade would be end-to-end registered ( Server-side acknowledged ), the local-side would have confirmed the valid state of the db.POOL
Making this a request/response pattern between localhost/MT4-Server processes, the localhost int init(){...} / int start(){...} functionality may thus reflect a moment, when the both sides have synchronised state of the records in db.POOL

Is it possible to send a message to an unregistered processes in Erlang?

I am aware that you can preform simple message passing with the following:
self() ! hello.
and you can see the message by calling:
flush().
I can also create simple processes in functions with something like:
spawn(module, function, args).
However I am not clear how one can send messages to the processes with out registering the Pid.
I have seen examples showing that you can pattern match against this in the shell to get the Pid assigned to a var, so if i create a gen_server such as:
...
start_link() ->
gen_server:start_link(?MODULE, init, []).
init(Pid) ->
{ok, Pid}.
...
I can then call it with the following from the shell:
{ok, Pid} = test_sup:start_link().
{ok,<0.143.0>}
> Pid ! test.
test
So my question is, can you send messages to Pids in the form <0.0.0> with out registering them to an atom or variable in the shell? Experimenting and searching as proved fruitless...
If you happen to need to send a message to a Pid based on the textual representation of its Pid, you can do (assuming the string is "<0.42.0>"):
list_to_pid("<0.42.0>") ! Message
This is almost only useful in the shell (where you can see the output of log messages or monitor data from something like Observer); any spawned process should normally be a child of some form of parent process to which it is linked (or monitored).
As for sending a message to something you just spawned, spawn returns a Pid, so you can assign it directly to a variable (which is not the same as registering it):
Pid = spawn(M, F, A),
Pid ! Message.
If you have the string "" to identify a pid, it is
either because you are working in the shell, and you use the representation you see, and you forgot to store this pid in a variable. Then simply use pid(X,Y,Z) to get it;
either because you did something like io_lib:format("~p",[Val]) where Val is the pid or a an erlang term which contain this pid. Then simply assign the pid to a variable (directly or extracting it from the term). It can be stored in an ets, send to another process without transformation
You should avoid to use the shell (or string) representation. One reason is that this representation is different when you ask the pid of one process from 2 different nodes as shown in the next screen capture.

Autosys: Concept of Kick Start Attribute and how to use

i have a daily( 09:00am) box containing 10 jobs inside it. All child jobs are sequentially scheduled to run.
On Monday, jobs 1,2 &3 completed and job4 failed. And coz of this, the downstream is stalled and the box is running infinetly( until some actions taken manually)
But the requirement is to run this box again on Tue 09:00am. I heard of Kickstart attribute to kick off the box on next scheduled time irrespective of last run status.
Can someone tell about this kick_start attribute? Also suggest me any other way to schedule this box daily.
TIA
Never heard of the kick_start attribute and could not find it in the R11.3.5 reference guide.
I would look at the box_terminator: y that will fail the box if a job in it fails and the job_terminator: y that will terminate and fail a job if the box it is in fails.
box_criteria is another attribute that may help as you can define what success or failure looks like. For example if you don't care if job4 fails, define box_criteria: s(job3).
Course that only sets your box to FA where it will run the next time it's starting conditions are met. It does nothing to run the downstream for the current run.
Have fun and test, test, test.

How to flush the io buffer in Erlang?

How do you flush the io buffer in Erlang?
For instance:
> io:format("hello"),
> io:format(user, "hello").
This post seems to indicate that there is no clean solution.
Is there a better solution than in that post?
Sadly other than properly implementing a flush "command" in the io/kernel subsystems and making sure that the low level drivers that implement the actual io support such a command you really have to simply rely on the system quiescing before closing. A failing I think.
Have a look at io.erl/io_lib.erl in stdlib and file_io_server.erl/prim_file.erl in kernel for the gory details.
As an example, in file_io_server (which effectively takes the request from io/io_lib and routes it to the correct driver), the command types are:
{put_chars,Chars}
{get_until,...}
{get_chars,...}
{get_line,...}
{setopts, ...}
(i.e. no flush)!
As an alternative you could of course always close your output (which would force a flush) after every write. A logging module I have does something like this every time and it doesn't appear to be that slow (it's a gen_server with the logging received via cast messages):
case file:open(LogFile, [append]) of
{ok, IODevice} ->
io:fwrite(IODevice, "~n~2..0B ~2..0B ~4..0B, ~2..0B:~2..0B:~2..0B: ~-8s : ~-20s : ~12w : ",
[Day, Month, Year, Hour, Minute, Second, Priority, Module, Pid]),
io:fwrite(IODevice, Msg, Params),
io:fwrite(IODevice, "~c", [13]),
file:close(IODevice);
io:put_chars(<<>>)
at the end of the script works for me.
you could run
flush().
from the shell, or try
flush()->
receive
_ -> flush()
after 0 -> ok
end.
That works more or less like a C flush.