You can also just put this into a script


while true
do
        echo refresh
        sleep 5
done | bpdbjobs -report ..... blah .....

        -- Cheers
        -- James

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Smith, David W (IT) wrote:

> James,
> 
> Thanks.  I noticed the bpdbjobs command waiting on a read system call, after
> typing refresh it read all the files again.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Mello [mailto:kingjamm AT colltech DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:15 AM
> To: Smith, David W (IT)
> Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'; Smith, David W (IT)
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Veritas NetBackup: Using bpdbjobs in a "tail
> -f" mode?
> 
> 
> bpdbjobs -report -all_columns -stay_alive
> 
> You need to either have a while loop that puts in the value "refresh" or
> type it by hand...
> 
>       -- Cheers
>       -- James
> 
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Smith, David W (IT) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a method to us the bpdbjobs command in like a unix
> "tail
> > -f" mode, where you can continually monitor jobs being run, etc.
> > 
> > Does this command have a man page? I've looked in the System Admin manual
> > and the options are not documented well.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >  David W. Smith (David.W.Smith AT kla-tencor DOT com)
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