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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: monitor v1.3 and xmon
Summary: Xmon is really unsupported...
Keywords: monitor xmon
Message-ID: <3244@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 28 May 91 17:14:38 GMT
References: <1991May26.004351.16691@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
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In article <1991May26.004351.16691@unixg.ubc.ca>, bird@sevior.physics.ubc.ca (Tony Ambardar) writes:
> Well, I just got monitor v1.3 from gatekeeper.dec.com and fired it up on
> our DS3100 running Ultrix3.1 . Monitor works fine, but I can't get it
> to work with xmon. The suggestion in the README file doesn't work. Any
> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

	I never tested xmon on a V3.x system.  As distributed it
	has a V4_ULTRIX define in the Makefile that should be
	taken out.  Upon trying to use it, I've noticed that you
	may have to explicitly specify "save" mode to get it to
	write the monitor data to stdout.

	Finally, once I did all this, I still couldn't get xmon to
	display anything.  In spending a couple of moments to think
	about it, I realized that in "save" mode, monitor only collects
	sample every 10 minutes.  Xmon doesn't display anything until
	it has the 2nd sample.  So, to get it work in general:

		monitor mon save -sleep 2 -file - | xmon

	This worked on a V3.1 VAXstation and a V4.1 DECstation 3100.
> 
> Oh, please send any e-mail to: bird@triumfcl.bitnet

	Looks like everybody will have the same problem, but I'll
	mail you a copy of this.
	


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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxn.dec.com