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Dennis Clarke wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ihsan Dogan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Am 13.3.2007 21:16 Uhr, Luke Scharf schrieb:
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone considered including watch (included in the procps packaged
on Redhat-ish distributions) in pkg-get?
It's one of my favorite trivialities... :-)
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<pre wrap="">What exactly is "watch"?
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<pre wrap="">It's a program that will run a command repeatedly, displaying the
command on the screen. For example:
watch -n 2 'gls -lh $HOME/download'
This will run "gls -lh $HOME/download" every two seconds and display the
results on the screen in a cleanish way.
I wouldn't want to use it to run 'rm -rf' -- but it really is nice for
watching large downloads, RAID rebuilds, zpool scrubs, df, and suchlike.
I'll be happy to contribute some work for this package, but I'm not
quite sure where to start -- or if this really belongs in another
package. (I'm C/C++/make/scripting and Unix literate, but I haven't
contributed packages to a group like this before.)
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I like it.
Where is the source ? On the RHEL5 source CD ISO images or somewhere ?
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It's been included as part of the base distribution (and part of the
source) -- I don't remember when it was introduced, but it's probably
been around at least as long as RH9. One source RPM is available here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/procps-3.2.7-8.src.rpm">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/procps-3.2.7-8.src.rpm</a><br>
Also, an RHEL5ish version is available here (It should also be
available on the RHEL5 source CDs):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/SRPMS/procps-3.2.7-8.src.rpm">http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/SRPMS/procps-3.2.7-8.src.rpm</a><br>
I'm actually running YellowDog Linux 4.1 on my Linux desktop at work at
the moment, which is based on Fedora Core 3, I think. Here is the
exact SRPM that I'm using today:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/yellowdog/releases/yellowdog-4.1/en/os/SRPMS/procps-3.2.0-1.2.ydl.1.src.rpm">ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/yellowdog/releases/yellowdog-4.1/en/os/SRPMS/procps-3.2.0-1.2.ydl.1.src.rpm</a><br>
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BTW, there is a fair bit of stuff in this package, including top, w,
uptime and some low-level system utilities:<br>
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<pre>$ rpm -ql procps | grep bin
/bin/ps
/sbin/sysctl
/usr/bin/free
/usr/bin/pgrep
/usr/bin/pkill
/usr/bin/pmap
/usr/bin/skill
/usr/bin/slabtop
/usr/bin/snice
/usr/bin/tload
/usr/bin/top
/usr/bin/uptime
/usr/bin/vmstat
/usr/bin/w
/usr/bin/watch
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There is a separate coreutils package on Redhat, which is separate from
this.<br>
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What else can I do to help out?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Luke<br>
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