On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:30:16 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > I'm looking for a command-line alternative to xfce4-genmon [1]. The > latter takes a command (executable), executes it every specified > period and displays the output in Xfce's panel. I'm looking for a > small utility (script) that can do this in the console: take a > command, re-run it regularly, print the output. Any suggestions? watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net