[xmonad] Server status script

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Iñaki Malerba <inakimmalerba at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Im trying to write a script for my xmobar to show my server status. Its
> mainly a physical server and 2 virtual machines.
>
> I tried by sending ping and checking the response, but the xmobar freezes
> everytime its executed until it finishes the run.
>

xmobar expects commands that it runs to return quickly. You will need to
have a separate script that does the check and logs its result to a file,
then check the contents of the file from xmobar.

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