Status line for text mode console

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Wed Oct 29 23:05:02 PDT 2008


Some question, inspired by my mainframe time...

Is there a port that allows FreeBSD to be equipped with some kind
of status line when using the shell on a text mode console? With
"status line" I mean some automagically updating text line that
informs about... date, time, terminal, actual system load, number
of users logged in or another status, for example like this:


poly at pups:~/src/bla% _


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
poly at pups.host.com:ttyv2 (3)          .:I  <= =>    2008-11-30 07:02:15

For example, the status line sits in line 25, line 24 contains
a barrier, and the shell runs on lines 1 - 23.

Is there anything comparable? Or do I have to write my own? :-)



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