From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 01:58:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10356 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 01:58:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (andrew@python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10344 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 01:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@python.shoal.net.au) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA26721; Fri, 22 May 1998 18:58:19 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 18:58:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Perry To: Andrew MacIntyre cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watch or monitor program? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On bsdi I can do watch w and every couple of seconds it'll give me an updated display of "w". Top doesn't do what I want here. Andrew > > > do we have a command like the bsdi "watch" command? (Not like our watch > > command) I searched the archive but most of the references were of course > > to our watch command which isn't what I want. I saw a reference from > > January 1997 where someone said we didn't have it yet but it was on his > > todo list and I was wondering if his todo list was anything like mine and > > it was still there :-) > > > > man -k watch (on bsdi 2.1) > > > > watch (1) - watch a program with update intervals > > is top any help? > > -- > Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." > E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 > andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 > Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message