gkrellm-fmonitor-mirror

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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
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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
file <~/.sensors>
Update command
Warning command
Alert command


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)