From aa1b5ee4bb9770be4080412bb9ffe6453f3b2584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastien GODARD <sysstat@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:48:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add REPEAT_HEADER variable to sysstat configuration file
 (#332)

This variable will make it easier to tell sa2 script to insert header
lines in the reports.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien GODARD <sysstat@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 sa2.in               | 2 +-
 sysstat.sysconfig.in | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sa2.in b/sa2.in
index b89b37f..d676ee4 100644
--- a/sa2.in
+++ b/sa2.in
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fi
 cd ${ENDIR}
 if [ x${REPORTS} != xfalse ]
 then
-	${ENDIR}/sar $* -f ${DFILE} > ${RPT}
+	S_REPEAT_HEADER=${REPEAT_HEADER} ${ENDIR}/sar $* -f ${DFILE} > ${RPT}
 fi
 
 SAFILES_REGEX='/sar?[0-9]{2,8}(\.(Z|gz|bz2|xz|lz|lzo))?$'
diff --git a/sysstat.sysconfig.in b/sysstat.sysconfig.in
index aec7656..f3116d4 100644
--- a/sysstat.sysconfig.in
+++ b/sysstat.sysconfig.in
@@ -39,3 +39,8 @@ DELAY_RANGE=@DELAY_RANGE@
 # the permissions on the files (e.g. use 0027 to adhere to more strict
 # security standards).
 UMASK=0022
+
+# The sa2 script uses the value below to set environment variable S_REPEAT_HEADER
+# which is used by sar as the maximum number of lines after which a header has to
+# be displayed (see sar(1) manual page).
+#REPEAT_HEADER=25
-- 
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