Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:37:41 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watch or monitor program? Message-ID: <35657195.A7FA6623@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980522213204.1161A-100000@python.shoal.net.au>
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Andrew Perry wrote: > > > > > So what exactly does it "display" when it "displays w" (content, file-attribs, > > ..) ??? > > it clears the screen and gives me the output of w (you know, who's logged > in and what are they doing) and then it refreshes the display every 2 > seconds (by default, you can change it to whatever you like) > > 9:31PM up 4 days, 10:26, 3 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.39, 0.44 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > andrew p1 eric 9:29PM 0 (pine) > andrew p2 eric 9:31PM 0 w > > here's the man page if you're interested. I don't think we have anything > like it yet. I might have to try and do it myself. As a stop-gap you could try pasting the following into a file and running it... " #!/bin/sh while [ 1 ] do clear w sleep 4 done " In fact you could probably write the whole 'watch' command as a simple shell script... OK, it's not curses optimized, but it works (as a stopgap)... ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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