From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDYFv-0002x7-WF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:22:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BB80E0370; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3C9E0370 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so3577524ewy.34 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:22:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oCVcs2BZbzTE3Jk3z0L2lZSixyLUPKxiXZOt9bSF/o4=; b=rASquf+vIeY8cn8cBgXWts4/Z5wCxJRMT//In4Vy5r5H0FlZ0fIXzeQUTt+3BWpOvB Q25xWqEtnG7Yv642W829E4DDO8iaT8YlsoSlAmaP1qdYE6Rgo/1Y4I1CDJvUi7z6enJZ LQXqKjPr3ltpYNljMtQui+hvPRrtHD6vSgGD0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=YonbNCDjpI4Wupj1ksa/XsVHAtu9kglw/gsWlfO+ayc3ajdeKWctmA3W3ImMNi5RMT EhKDPNx0UpTevH97Vtoy9dwauTnAS0foP9Dhnov36y8QeMcMXfDtgl6H9+fzf6nV1LZI U8hVb+8cmeMs4lpekcLmq4HNfAzndL8lx5sEw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.8.77 with SMTP id 55mr2097574weq.220.1244442169371; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:22:49 +0200 Message-ID: <68b1e2610906072322t320ec5dl97337c3e7c12a10e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor From: Liviu Andronic To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 48f0d9ca-dd85-4c6e-827e-6280c8c17d81 X-Archives-Hash: 7620d345a73d1cd5792f330f0d11fd37 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? Thank you, Liviu [1] http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail