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Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 11:51:57 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>, Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: watch or monitor program?
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On Fri, 22 May 1998 at 21:40:59 +1000, 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.

What version of BSD/OS does this run on?  I can't find it on my 3.0
CD-ROMs, but the man page suggests it's older:

> BSDI BSD/OS                    December 30, 1994                             1

Greg
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