Help with watch in tcsh

Karl Kleinpaste karl at triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu
Mon Mar 28 23:50:24 AEST 1988


yosi at cisunx.UUCP writes:
   I can't seem to get the watch in tcsh to work.
   I set the watch as = (5 userid any) and it does nothing.
   The only time it seems to do anything is when I type log.

The time value in $watch[1] is in minutes.  You have set a 5-minute
watch interval period.  Set it to 1 and you'll probably get behavior
closer to what you want.  If you set it to zero, you'll get immediate
updates every time you get a command prompt...but you'll also
completely re-read and re-parse /etc/utmp every time you get a command
prompt, which is NOT desirable.

--Karl



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