On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 05:26:23PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > Hello there, > > On 29 July 2013 01:02, Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Comments and criticism is welcome. > > The net monitor is something I'm looking for, though I'm not sure how > I would integrate it with my current shell script: > https://github.com/kaihendry/Kai-s--HOME/blob/master/.xinitrc#L43 > https://github.com/kaihendry/Kai-s--HOME/blob/master/bin/dwm_status > > Prefer the versatility of shell. :} Though that earlier shell example > is incomplete and I guess it would have to be daemonised to keep the > old values.
Both are functionally equivalent of course. IMHO a dedicated but simple C program is a more efficient and cleaner solution, however. > Maybe I'll adjust the C program to write the netstats to a file for a > shell script like mine to read it? Is that sane? That seems rather insane to me, I have to admit :-) > And run your C program from systemd? (*duck*) Well, I am running systemd as well so that does not strike me as being especially duck-worthy. Other people on this list have a different opinion on this, I bet...
