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Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by cxseven » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #23

tluyben2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though some software does replace the password, it would be better not to use passwords like that at all anyway. Just to be sure.

Once again with mysql you can: MYSQL_PWD=password mysql -uuser db

On some old systems, I remember that env vars of other UIDs could be seen, even if you weren't root. I wonder if that's still true for any systems out there.

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by terminalcommand » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

I studied the line read _ _ sid &1 strace -esetsid setsid sh -c "exec $PROGRAM /dev/tty2 >&0 2>&1 ")

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-guide.html#PROCESS-SUB

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by CatCookie » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

terminalcommand wrote: post #32

I studied the line read _ _ sid &1 strace -esetsid setsid sh -c "exec $PROGRAM /dev/tty2 >&0 2>&1 ") http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-guide.html#PROCESS-SUB

thank you :)

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by hisham_hm » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

Hi, htop author here: this brought a smile to my face! Wondering if I should do the same in htop's own website. Would be fun to follow the activity spike when the new major release comes later this year! Major kudos to the author for the idea!

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by felxh » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

Interesting, thanks! Probably not as cool, but you could also just get the output of the regular top, parse it and generate HTML from it (a bit like http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/)

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by gaving » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

Nice. Always meant to try and do something similar myself using https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

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Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by dorfsmay » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:51 PM UTC

GraphicsMagic > image magic

atop > htop

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by vosper » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

hisham_hm wrote: post #34

Hi, htop author here: this brought a smile to my face! Wondering if I should do the same in htop's own website. Would be fun to follow the activity spike when the new major release comes later this year! Major kudos to the author for the idea!

As long as we're giving kudos, allow me to give some to you: htop is a great tool. Thanks for making it!

Re: Using htop to generate a live website background

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Post by CatCookie » Sat, Oct 03, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

hisham_hm wrote: post #34

Hi, htop author here: this brought a smile to my face! Wondering if I should do the same in htop's own website. Would be fun to follow the activity spike when the new major release comes later this year! Major kudos to the author for the idea!

Thanks, we would be happy to see it on your site. :)