Krells!

[Michael Shiloh]

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