From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 11:35:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D7B16A421 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au (pecan.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2008113C49D for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from 28.201.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.201.28] helo=[192.168.100.148]) by pecan.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IoaHQ-0000iY-Rb; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:52:24 +1100 In-Reply-To: <77647f500711032033i2ffbd581w89d540728e91fbcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <77647f500711032033i2ffbd581w89d540728e91fbcb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sam Lawrance Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:52:22 +1100 To: C Thala X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: need Linux help (watch and LVS) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:35:07 -0000 On 04/11/2007, at 2:33 PM, C Thala wrote: > Can someone tell me the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux command > "watch". > > In Linux, watch is like top, but you can run it against any command > and have it refresh every N seconds. There is a watch command in > FreeBSD but it does something else entirely. You can do this using a simple shell loop. If you really need the GNU watch command it is available in ports as "gnu-watch". Have a nice day Sam