[ale] console...

[Nick Lucent]

I would like to see a screensaver like novells that shows the load by the
tail length.

Nick

On Sun, 2 May 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Sar'Naa Archie wrote:
> 
> > is there a way to run a program in console...as opposed to the screen
> > blanking out?  
> 
> I'm guessing here, but I don't think console does that.  But I'm pretty
> sure, that you can implement a cron job that will execute, say, once a
> minute, which would parse the output of 'finger' to look for an idle time
> past a certain threshold.  It could execute a program when the shortest
> listed idle time is 15 minutes or however long you want the delay to be.
> 
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