In the last episode (May 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net said:
> > I'm not familiar with glance, but have a look at systat,
> > specifically, the vmstat screen.
> 
> well, thx for the hint. the tool indeed looks nice, and curious as i
> am, i monitored some action with it. i started it with
> "systat -vmstat 1 >/dev/ttyv9 &"
> to get the output to a non-shelled terminal and watch the stats on
> another screen. right now, the only process currently still working
> on the system is the monitor tool itself:
> 
> top output:
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 60297 root        1 126    0  1816K  1256K RUN    221:45 99.02% systat
>
> is this normal? it will at least render the figures inaccurate, not?

Systat doesn't like it if it has no stdin; adding a " </dev/ttyv9 "
to your commandline should make it behave.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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