From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 03:25:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24050 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 03:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA24017 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 03:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.164]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:22:16 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00365; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Andrew Perry Subject: Re: watch or monitor program? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew MacIntyre Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-May-98 Andrew Perry wrote: > On bsdi I can do > > watch w > > and every couple of seconds it'll give me an updated display of "w". So what exactly does it "display" when it "displays w" (content, file-attribs, ..) ??? I have no idea what the bsdi-version of watch does !!! Be more specific about what you want to get. Malte. > 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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 22-May-98 Time: 12:16:22 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message