From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 14: 9:30 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 3008C37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:09:24 -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 13r64R-00088m-00; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:09:23 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA08384; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:09:22 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:09:22 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: flag Cc: Dima Dorfman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ctrl key to show current system operation? Message-ID: <20001101220922.A8340@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20001101004800.33CE61F34@static.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from flag@libero.it on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:55:15PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:55:15PM +0100, flag wrote: | On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Dima Dorfman wrote: | | > Control+T? Sample output: | > | > load: 0.10 cmd: gzip 15818 [running] 0.46u 0.00s 0% 384k | | ??? | | I tried pressing Ctrl+t or Ctrl+Shift+T but nothing happens...=P | What's wrong? You need to do it when the terminal is busy doing something. If you have the prompt, then it won't do anything. Try ssh to a slow connection, or maybe some file operation that takes a long time . The key is to get the terminal to be waiting, with no prompt, while a job is being performed. Another idea is to start a long tar operation without verbose output. All of these things should do it. Then just hit ctrl t while it is working. 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