helpful amanda script

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Thu Aug 24 14:33:01 EDT 2006


Michael ODonnell wrote:
>> watch --differences
> 
> Also, depending on the command whose output
> you're monitoring, you may want to run it thus:
> 
>    watch "someCommand 2>/dev/null"
> 
> ...to keep stderr chatter from scribbling
> onto the screen and rendering it unreadable,
> or at least un-pretty.

If it's not just a one-off thing, I always wrap it in a shell script
to take care of details like that.


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