Seti@home and fileread-plugins for GKrellM
GKrellM
monitor suits really fine for me to monitor
various system activities. But I liked to add couple of things
like temperature and seti@home client progress monitor.
Both tasks can be done with simply text-file reading.
Temperature and other "value" reading (fileread)
I'm putting my outside temperature in textfile '~/.temperature'
and reading that to "krell". This is done with fileread plugin. It can
read any single textfile with label & value pair to krell. File should contain just one line, like
Out: -23.34
Filename is configurable same way as seti@home plugin, see below.
tmoestl gmx net Thomas Moestl added a nice support for
int, string and float types of data. There is also ability to monitor multiple
files at the same time. For compiling, you'll need Makefile and then just type make.
Update for gkrellm 1.2.9: Blues send me patch to make fileread work with
gkrellm 1.2.9. Thanks Blues !
seti@home monitor
Seti-monitor looks for 'state.sah' and in that line containing 'prog=0.nnnnnnn'
string. Then it simply converts that to "krell" movement. Seti-monitor includes
an configuration option to set file path. You can access configuration by
pressing right mouse at GKrellM's top corner and choosing 'configure'. And
there should be an 'Plugins' tree, and under that you hopefully find 'Seti'. If
you click on the seti-krell, it starts or stops seti@home client process by
"killall setiathome". (In future, it should use "pid" file that resides in
seti-directory...) This monitor is not developed any more because there is
better monitor available now (see links-section).
Installation
Both monitors use an plugin-method
implemented in GKrellm. Just
copy plugin (for example seti.so) to ~/.gkrellm/plugins - directory and enjoy.
Binary
Seti: version
compiled in RedHat 6.2 / gkrellm 0.10.4: seti.so
Fileread: version
compiled in RedHat 7.0 Beta / gkrellm 0.10.4: fileread.so
Sourcecode
Sources can be
found here:
In case plugin needs recompilation,
just type make and that should do it.
If you want to enable debugging (if it dumps core or something) just put
"-g" somewhere at the "gcc" lines at the Makefile.
Configuration
ToDo
In random order:
- Add support & configuration for many seti@home instances running at the
same time, eg. support for SMP machines (See this
e-mail I got from springer at astro.psu.edu for his really nice and quick solution. I could not
contact him through e-mail so I hope it's ok to include the mail here. Anyway,
thanks for nice information.)
- Show setiathome "state" (eg. running / stopped) at monitor label.
Links
Xavier Serpaggi has modified
this monitor a little further, there is nice graphics and better outlook in his
version. http://perso.libertysurf.fr/serpaggi/seti/
History
- x.x Upgraded monitors to match gkrellm 0.9.0 and above plugin standard
- x.x Fixed configuration bug wich come when saving multiple times
- x.x Allow user to start & stop client by left clicking on monitor. Not yet showing "state" at monitor but simply "killall -STOP setiathome" and "killall -CONT setiathome".
- 8.6.2000 upgraded monitors for coming 0.10.0 version.
- 15.7.2000 upgraded monitors to be compatible with 0.10.4 version of gkrellm
- 11.10.2000 tmoestl gmx net / Thomas Moestl added Makefile and support for multiple monitors to fileread-plugin.
- 16.2.2001 added a link to another seti-monitor
- 20.3.2003 patch to make fileread compatible with gkrelmm 1.2.9
- 18.9.2003 Fileread ported for GKrellm2 by Thomas Styblo at http://sweb.cz/tripie/gkrellm/fileread/
Questions
should be mailed to h yty dot net
Henkka, 11.10.2000