GeekTool 2.1.2 review

GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Jaguar to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1464K Developer: Tynsoe.org Price: $0.00 Updated: 17 Mar 2006

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GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Jaguar to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).

Use File mode to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/tmp/console.log or /var/log/system.log, or Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like "df" to check space left on filesystems, "uptime" to monitor load of your machine... FInally, Image mode helps you monitor bandwith usage, CPU loads, memory availability of your server, via tools like MRTG or RRD.

GeekTool is a preference pane module that lets you display 3 different types of information on your desktop: Log files, Commands, Pictures.

Note: GeekTool is *not* fully compatible with Tiger (Mac OS 10.4), use it at your own risk.

What's New:
Fixed a *HUGE* localization bug, GeekTool english should now work fine now
Fixed a bug causing default new log entries to not work (in 10.4, logs are under user id, not user name)
Fixed an authorization bug that cause GT to not work for other users
Fixed a bug with the way settings are read.