[PLUG] Dividing up a console screen
Marv
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Oct 20 17:53:01 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:45, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I'm on a roll today it appears. Is there a package for doing
> pseudo-windows in a console screen? Curses is the ticket but I hoping for
> something that made it easier ... like the old 4DOS package did.
>
> I'm trying to monitor several process on a headless server via ssh login.
> One is the colorized output of tail -f /var/log/maillog which would be
> fine in the bottom 10-15 lines. I have, currently, one other that
> monitors the Postfix queues every 30 seconds but only needs 5 lines or so
> and around 20 character columns.
> Having both scripts running (background) and writing to their screen
> areas would make it very nice and pretty cool also.
>
> So is there something like this out there?
>
screen??
>
> Rod
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