Improvements in the lcd display. It displays a two row up and download meter and it displays various services starting as it boots up. The thing you may want to edit is in /sbin/lcd on line 61 through 64. I picked eth0 and 100mbs as the default. Here is an example from my test machine which is using a 3G card and is connected to a 1.8mbs tower link with a max 384kbs upload speed limit.
my $IFACE = 'ppp0'; # -> What is the interface you want to monitor?
my $UPBITS = 384; # -> What's the maximum upload rate in kbits/second of your line? my $DOWNBITS = 1800; # -> What's the maximum download rate in kbits/second of your line?
On my daily firewall, I use eth3 as red so I monitor it. I figured it was safe to default to green as everyone will have an eth0.
If you want the heartbeat which is a blinking heart on the last line of row 2, line 76 has this:
my $USE_HEART = 0; # -> set to 0 if you don't want it
As you see, I set it at 0, if you want the heart set 0 to 1:
my $USE_HEART = 1; # -> set to 0 if you don't want it
Advanced: If you decide to edit /etc/lcd.conf and use a "killall lcd", you restart the lcd by invoking "lcd -loop > /dev/null 2>&1 &" excluding quotation marks The long command is to allow you to not tie up a terminal so you can exit the ssh or serial terminal and leave it running, you can get away with "lcd -loop &" as well with no real problems. If you wish to experiment and will be shutting it off and on then simply run "lcd -loop" and ctrl+c to kill it, edit /etc/lcd.conf and do it again.
Other neat stuff:
You can invoke "lcd" followed by any text you want within two sets of quotation marks anytime whether lcd -loop is running or not. One of our users SmartMLP, made some changes to allow "lcd" and the same parameters as the original Cobalt programs so no filler characters are necessary to fill two 16 character lines properly. With Raqcop, lcd text output is used extensively inrc.sysinit and as of 1.4.22cvs, rc.halt. If you are looping such as with the default bandwidth meter and run lcd with some text input, in a few moments it will resume the loop as normal. Some parts will come back before others, don't worry, this is normal. The syntax for the new texting is:
lcd "first line 16 char max" "second line 16 char max"
You can use spaces anywhere to center short words.
The legacy lcd -text is still intact but there is no compelling reason to use it anymore, thanks SmartMLP! It works like:
