On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:47:15 -0600, Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] mailbagcom>
wrote:

>If you're redirecting output to file, you can read the file.  That's how
>I'd handle s-povray; I don't know enough about how John is put together
>to make any recommendations.  Some applications require you to be at The
>Console.  My sources suggest there's no way for you to read the tty the
>way you have in mind, so I'm inclined to think that file redirection may
>be your best bet.
>
>-Mark Gordon

Thanks, Mark. John is working to keep the load near 1.0 because hey
I've paid for the darn CPU why not use it? :) For speed reasons it
only outputs status upon keypress etc. (john -status will only give
uptime, cracking speed and guesses). Anyway, it's not much of an
issue. I was more interested in spovray because it is the only app
(beside john) which I will run in the background for a long time and
will monitor the progres of. Thanks a bunch, I will try it. I bet tail
will do the trick.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

Post a reply to this message