From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 6:13:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FAF37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13qydY-000F2O-00; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:13:08 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03607; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:13:08 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:13:08 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: Siegbert Baude Cc: dima@unixfreak.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ctrl key to show current system operation? Message-ID: <20001101141307.B3410@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20001101004800.33CE61F34@static.unixfreak.org> <3A0020F7.B47BC08@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A0020F7.B47BC08@gmx.de>; from siegbert.baude@gmx.de on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:56:07PM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: | Hello Dima, | | > Control+T? Sample output: | > | > load: 0.10 cmd: gzip 15818 [running] 0.46u 0.00s 0% 384k | | This will do nothing on my system. Has this thing to be activated somewhere? | Where would I find any documentation about such goodies? Is this maybe shell | dependant (my standard shell is bash)? Make sure you have a task running when you do this. I'm not sure which tasks produce output and which do not, but if you start a long disk operation and hit ctrl-t WHILE IT IS RUNNING IN THAT TERMINAL you should get a line of output. I'm not 100% clear on this, however. jcm -- "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -President Bill Clinton "I don't know what you mean by the word 'ask.'" -CEO Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message