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:

lcd -text Texting is fun for everyone

Result:
Texting is fun f
or everyone

But if you put it this way:

lcd -text Texting is fun..for everyone

you will get this:

Texting is fun..
for everyone


I hope this helps.

Dave Studeman