X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fsonar.man;h=aae3b5b0bed253fe72a5bf9837d01ea62a29f00c;hb=3f438031d610c7e15fd33876a879b97e290e05fb;hp=36dd7911a471e69add8111d680c662608681b99a;hpb=bc7b7a8eb122206d239ec0e693676bcce31be1aa;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/sonar.man b/hacks/sonar.man index 36dd7911..aae3b5b0 100644 --- a/hacks/sonar.man +++ b/hacks/sonar.man @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ sonar - display a sonar scope [\-team-a-count \fIint\fP] [\-team-b-count \fIint\fP] [\-no\-dns] +[\-no\-times] [\-debug] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fIsonar\fP program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen. @@ -107,6 +108,9 @@ names as the first element on each line. If you use ssh, try this: .B \-no\-dns Do not attempt to resolve IP addresses to hostnames. .TP 8 +.B \-no\-times +Do not display ping times beneath the host names. +.TP 8 .B \-team-a-name \fIstring\fP In simulation mode, the name of team A. .TP 8 @@ -173,6 +177,14 @@ have as few setuid programs around as possible, on general principles. chown root.root sonar chmod u+s sonar .EE +In ping-mode, the display is a logarithmic scale, calibrated so that the +three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 +milliseconds respectively. + +This means that if any the hosts you are pinging take longer than 2 +seconds to respond, they won't show up; and if you are pinging several +hosts with very fast response times, they will all appear close to the +center of the screen (making their names hard to read.) .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), @@ -193,7 +205,7 @@ implied warranty. Stephen Martin , 3-nov-98. Thanks to Tom Kelly for suggesting a modular approach to the sensor -amoung other things. +among other things. Thomas Bahls hacked the "ttl" option, 12-jul-98.