Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!uunet!convex!convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: control-T for status (was: Finding Passwords) Message-ID: <107055@convex.convex.com> Date: 11 Oct 90 12:50:05 GMT References: <9105:Oct910:13:5190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <278@pdxgate.UUCP> Sender: news@convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 15 In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >That way you could type ^T or whatever it is and it might echo: > > /bin/login (PID=2833) running as UID=0 If you're going to go and do that, please add at least process status and maybe load average as well. It's nice to know when a foreground process is in keyboard read. See the VAX 4.3+NFS release from UWisc. We used ^T for just that purpose, although you could stty it to whatever you wanted. --tom -- "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." [Doug Gwyn]