------------------------------------------------------------------------------ File Monitor plugin for GKrellM Copyright (C) 2001 Anatoly Asviyan aanatoly@linuxmail.org This program is free software which I release under the GNU General Public License. You may redistribute and/or modify this program under the terms of that license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. To get a copy of the GNU General Puplic License, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This plugin monitors a file and displays its contens in gkrellm. File can have multiple rows of the form 'name : value : [flag]'. If flag non-empty then for WARNING value - the orange led will light up and for ALERT value - red. For example CPU:50.8:ALERT SBr:33.4:WARNING Fan1:4560: or Temp:31 C: Hum:49 %: Plugin can monitor multiple files and for each file, you can specify the following: Label - label of gkrellm panel File to monitor - as is :) - file to monitor. It would be checked every 5 sec Update program - the program to update a monitored file. Warning command - any shell command to run whenever warning flag is set. Alert command - any shell command to run whenever alert flag is set. I'm using it to monitor my HW state from via686a sensor chip. For this purpose I wrote sensors.tcl script that periodicaly run 'sensors' utility, processes its output and writes results to ~/.sensors in the above format. sensors.tcl has its own documentation at the beginning of file. Here is sensor's configuration label <Sensors> file <~/.sensors> Update command <sensors.tcl> Warning command <mpg123 ~/mp3/cpu2hot.mp3> Alert command <sudo shutdown -h now> INSTALL tar zxvf fmonitor-xxx.tar.gz cd fmonitor-xxx # to install fmonitor.so make make install # to install sensors.tcl 0. read documentation 1. edit it! 2. put it somewhere in your bin path 3. edit preferences of fmonitor in gkrellm configuration menu CREDITS Plugin is based on Bill Willson (bill@gkrellm.net) demo programs and on fileread plugin by Henry Palonen (h@yty.net) Modified for GKrellM 2 by Jindrich Makovicka (makovick@kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz). Some bugfixes by Geoff Kuenning (geoff@cs.hmc.edu)