Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script driven status displayer?
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
>
> lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i
> am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up...
>
> thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere...
>
> since i nearly don't use the gnome stuff that is hanging around my
> desktop, i thought that maybe there would be that sort of thing lying
> allready around as a panel applet....
>
> but no luck, the ppp monitor seems ot work only with normal RTC
> modems....
>
> keeping allways a tail -f /var/log/messages open is cumbersome, and
> there are the ip-up and ip-down scripts that could send a signal to an
> app....
>
>
> so is there allready something out that does this?
>
I use gkrellm (actually gkrellm2 on gnome2) for various things,
including monitoring my asdl connection.
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