[lcd4linux] Problems with own comands

[Udo A. <udo...@we...>]

Happy new year all together,

here are 3 little items comming:

1)
Sitting in front of a linux-box with lcd4linux installed,
I have a problem with external comands used in lcd4linux.conf:

Row6 %x1
Row7 %x2
Row8 %x3
#x1 tail -1 /var/log/messages                # -the original entry
#x1 ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | cut -c21-36  # -first try - nothing worked=

x1 ifconfig ppp0                             # -second try, step by step
x2 echo $X1 | grep inet                      #  to see if anything happens=

x3 echo $X3 | cut -c21-36                    #

I wrote the "script" to checkout which IP the router got,
the workaround withtwo pipes is to avoid the work with
sed or awk, because I'm a networker not a programmer.
Perhaps someone does have a better hack to do this.

2)
Is it possible to read the data from 3 different eth-if,
because the machine is a firewall with some networkes
attached. It would be fine, if each the in-and output of
each interface would be drawn.

3)
Thanks a lot to Michael, the driver for the M50530,
   Display M50530
   Port 0x378
   Port /dev/parport0
   Size 24x8
   Delay 503
is working pretty good, the display is attached to a firewall,
it would be the "=FCberhammer" if the would be the possibility
to attach some buttons, to start predefinded scripts.
E.g. start-stop the machine, stop some daemons ....
(Michael: Please be a little bit patience, the promised display
will be sent - but I don't know exactly when.)

Greetings from the long river
and special greetings to Graz

Udo
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