Timeline for Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew
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| May 18, 2013 at 14:09 | comment | added | daviewales | iftop doesn't seem like the kind of program that could be run in geektool anyway. It needs to output static text, but it appears to run dynamically in curses. | |
| May 18, 2013 at 14:05 | comment | added | daviewales |
Well... You could make your own script that gets run by a root cronjob, and puts the relevant data into a text file every minute. Then you could get geektool to read the file every minute... To create a root crontab, you just run sudo crontab -e. Everything you put in there will run with root permissions.
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| Mar 29, 2012 at 1:29 | comment | added | d0g | Ah ... so no way to make it a Geeklet? | |
| Mar 29, 2012 at 1:15 | comment | added | Ian C. | Nope. Binding to a network interface is a privileged action. Only super users can do that. | |
| Mar 29, 2012 at 1:12 | comment | added | d0g |
I got it running by fixing permissions ... but is there any way to run iftop without sudo? Without sudo I get: Permission denied (I want to use this with GeekTool) Thanks!
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| Mar 29, 2012 at 0:34 | history | answered | Ian C. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |