Re: PFtop monitor

[Ben Goren <ben_(_at_)_trumpetpower_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:56:06AM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:

> I just  tossed together a  quick top-like monitoring  script for
> your pf firewalls.  It displays the output of "pfctl -s info" at
> one second intervals (by default).   It does not accept any user
> input... just ctrl-C to quit.

No neeed to write a perl script for this kind of thing. Watch over
my  shoulder for  any  length of  time and  you'll  find me  doing
something like this:

    $ while :; do clear; date; echo; df -hi; sleep 2; done

Of course, the  ``df -hi'' will change to whatever  it is that I'm
interested in watching.

I've seen some Linux systems that have a facility called ``watch''
that  does the  same basic  thing, but  it seems  rather a  bit of
overkill to have a whole program devoted to a shell one-liner.

Cheers,

b&

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