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Justin Hancock · Jan 24, 2003, 08:53 PM

I'm looking for an application that captures your uptime information (not from Terminal, as I don't want the uptime command executing constantly), then uploads it a page on the Internet, and it is refreshed whenever someone accesses that page. I'd prefer if it were customizable (how it is displayed).

If anyone knows of an app that does anything remotely similar to what I'm talking about, please reply.

Also, I have used Snapperhead but that gathers the uptime not including sleep, so it isn't the true uptime.

someone_else · Jan 24, 2003, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by Justin Hancock:
I'm looking for an application that captures your uptime information (not from Terminal, as I don't want the uptime command executing constantly), then uploads it a page on the Internet, and it is refreshed whenever someone accesses that page. I'd prefer if it were customizable (how it is displayed).

If anyone knows of an app that does anything remotely similar to what I'm talking about, please reply.

Also, I have used Snapperhead but that gathers the uptime not including sleep, so it isn't the true uptime.

Try the latest beta of ChangeDesktop 2.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/changedesktop/).

It has pretty much the same functionality as SnapperHead (+ a lot more) and gets the uptime from the Darwin kernel.

Check out my sig for an example.

Justin Hancock · 12:24 AM

Originally posted by someone_else:
Try the latest beta of ChangeDesktop 2.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/changedesktop/).

It has pretty much the same functionality as SnapperHead (+ a lot more) and gets the uptime from the Darwin kernel.

Check out my sig for an example.

How can I edit the output of the page? E.g. mine is http://12.230.18.238:5000...how can I make it so it only exports the uptime?

someone_else · Jan 25, 2003, 12:45 AM

Originally posted by Justin Hancock:
How can I edit the output of the page? E.g. mine is http://12.230.18.238:5000...how can I make it so it only exports the uptime?

The page template is stored in the Application bundle in Contents/Resources/ChangeDesktopDaemon.app/Contents/Resources/page.txt.

You can edit this file in any text editor. Just add HTML comments around any lines you don't want to show in the browser. Note, it is VERY, VERY imortant that you don't delete any thing in this file, just comment it out. An HTML comment is formatted as such:

Code:
<!-- This is a comment that won't show in the browser. -->

HTML comments can span multiple lines.

HTH.

Edit: Forgot to mention. Make sure you only comment out lines between the <body> and </body> tags. Otherwise the HTML won't display correctly.

macmad · Jan 25, 2003, 12:58 AM

Try the latest beta of ChangeDesktop 2.4

this one is nice too!

Justin Hancock · Jan 25, 2003, 01:18 AM

Originally posted by someone_else:
The page template is stored in the Application bundle in Contents/Resources/ChangeDesktopDaemon.app/Contents/Resources/page.txt.

You can edit this file in any text editor. Just add HTML comments around any lines you don't want to show in the browser. Note, it is VERY, VERY imortant that you don't delete any thing in this file, just comment it out. An HTML comment is formatted as such:

Code:


HTML comments can span multiple lines.

HTH.

Edit: Forgot to mention. Make sure you only comment out lines between the <body> and </body> tags. Otherwise the HTML won't display correctly.

Thanks, I'll try that in a bit