[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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