Dale Maggee wrote: > If you're like me, you're a big fan of gkrellm, and you always have it > running so you can keep an eye on what your system is doing. I wanted to > have a remote display of my FR CPU usage on my host, for the same reason > - to be able to see at a glance what's going on. > > Looking at gkrellm's man page, I discovered that it can monitor a remote > host which is running gkrellmd - the gkrellm daemon. > > So I downloaded the source and tried to compile the daemon for the > freerunner using the toolchain (I haven't got the mokomakefile set up > yet). I wasn't able to build an ipkg, but I was able to run the > resulting binary on the freerunner, then connect to it from my host, > achieving just what I wanted. > > screenshot: > > http://users.on.net/~antisol/krells.jpg > > (the krell on the left is the freerunner, the other one is my host) > > the gkrellmd binary: > > http://users.on.net/~antisol/gkrellmd.tar.gz > > to use it, just untar the binary, scp it to your freerunner, run > "gkrellmd -d" on your freerunner, then run "gkrellm -s <freerunner ip>" > on your host. it takes a while (~10 seconds) to connect, so be patient. > > Hopefully somebody else will find this usefull! :) > > <adds this to list of things you can't do with any other phone> > > Cheers, > -Dale
This is awesome. Thanks! And thanks too for showing how you did this. M _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community