LED proggy question

[W. D.]

Hey Hugo,

Thanks for the info! 

I don't think that the rest of the list got the reply because
"freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" wasn't in one of the recipient
fields.  I don't know why the list doesn't include it.

Regards,

W. D. 

At 05:40 6/19/2004, klr at 6s-gaming.com, wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I got this working, but only with a x-based program. I pkg_add'ed X and
>started a small session with a xterm to be able to run this program (name
>is xleds). For the interested guys, here is the script:
>
>ipfw-visual.sh:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>tail -f /var/log/ipfw.log | \
>  awk '
>$0 ~ /ICMP/ {
>system("sh /scripts/scrlock");
>}
>$0 ~ /TCP/ {
>system("sh /scripts/numlock");
>}
>$0 ~ /UDP/ {
>system("sh /scripts/capslock");
>}
>'
>
>all the /scripts/*lock consist of the following:
>
>#/bin/sh
>xleds num
>#sleep 0.05
>xleds num
>
>Change num for caps or scrl. I moved xleds to /usr/local/bin so don't need
>a path. You can find this xleds thing easily on google :-)
>
>Initially I  added a sleep delay, but when much traffic was being blocked
>continuously it would keep on blinking the light a lot of time after
>(because of the sleep delay), so later I removed this.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Hugo
>> At 14:08 6/18/2004, klr at 6s-gaming.com, wrote:
>>>hey,
>>>
>>>I've been trying to find a program on the ports that allows me to change
>>>the state of the keyboard LEDs. I want to put the keyboard on the room
>>>wall and make a script to call a program which makes leds blink according
>>>to the kind of traffic being blocked on the firewall. I want a program
>>>like:
>>>
>>>blink 1 - blinks num lock
>>>blink 2 - blinks caps lock
>>>blink 3 - blinks scroll lock
>>>
>>>If there isn't such a program on the ports, perhaps someone with the
>>>knowledge to write this program could do it ? I don't touch C for many
>>>many years and couldn't find any function to do this.
>>>
>>>Any help appreciated! :-)
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Hugo
>>
>> Hugo,
>>
>> This sound insane, but very cool.  Please let us know if you
>> can get it to work.  If FreeBSD has Linux emulation:
>> http://www.Google.com/search?q=keyboard+kylix+%22num+lock%22+%22caps+lock%22
>>
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