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- From: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: A couple of tips
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 00:30:47 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
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- These may be helplessly simple to most people, but neat and useful to me so
- I'll share them,
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- #1. Since I only have 2 meg of memory *cough* when I re-compile the kernel
- *more coughing* I try to free up as much space as possible, one way I do
- this is to link the make process to an unused VC and logout of everything
- else, my tty5-8 are un-getty'd for a few reasons, so I can do something
- like:
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- doshell /dev/tty7 make &
- exit
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- or if you'd like a log of the compile,
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- doshell /dev/tty7 make 2>&1 | tee make.log & (stolen from the make README,:))
- exit
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- #2 This is nice because I'm always curious of whats going on in the system,
- and get tired of typing ps-aux:
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- doshell /dev/tty8 top &
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- this sets up a nice little version of top on VC 8, which can be killed if
- memory gets tight, but gives you instant view of the processes running :)
- I'm also on a setterm kick, so to make it more appealing, you can:
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- setterm -store -bold on -f white -b blue -clear all -cursor off > /dev/tty8
- doshell /dev/tty8 top &
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- :) Hope these are some help to someone and not just noise, bai!
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