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1998-12-09 Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> Larger changes to the daemon: - Dropped all the unix domain socket stuff - we don't need it for connections on the local host, here we behave just like any normal application. - Added poptimization: use the --help parameter to get usage info - Made it a real daemon, fork into background and write to syslog. - It's now possible to invoke the daemon from inetd, you'll get GNU_SECURE authentication in this case. - Don't make this executable suid/sgid - if invoked as root it sets uid/gid to SERVER_UID/SERVER_GID as defined in server_config.h - Added missing features, so you can now really use this thing.
Hi all, [PLEASE READ THE FILE ``README.LATEST'' FOR LATEST NEWS] this is the latest alpha version of libgtop, a library that fetches information about the running system such as cpu and memory usage, active processes etc. On Linux systems, these information are taken directly from the /proc filesystem. For other systems such as Solaris, where such programs need to be suid root (or only setgid kmem/mem on some systems), it provides a suid/setgid server that fetches those information and a client-side library that talks to this server. Main idea was to have the same interface for all operating systems, thus all system dependent details are hidden in the implementation of that server. Currently, it only works for Linux, documentation on how to port it to other systems is on the way. I'm planning to keep this site an up-to-date mirror of my local machine (which is connected to the internet over some expensive dialup connection, so I'll upload it about once every day I made significant changes) so that you can always find the latest version of the software here. I've written a simple guile interface for the library to show which information it can already fetch. See examples/third for details. Source Code: =========== libgtop-current-cvs.cpio.gz is a cpio archive from the CVS repository libgtop-current.cpio.gz contains the lates checked out sources libgtop-stable.cpio.gz if present, it contains the last stable release Documentation: ============= libgtop.sgml is the SGML source of the (DocBook) documentation The next three files are only provided until they get too big to upload. libgtop.tex TEX file of the documentation libgtop.dvi DVI file of the documentation libgtop.ps Postscript file of the documentation HTML-Documentation: ================== libgtop.shtml Start here to browse the HTML documentation Other stuff: =========== README, NEWS, ChangeLog copied from the sources Enjoy it! Martin (martin@home-of-linux.org - baulig@merkur.uni-trier.de)