conky:ppp0 uptime

RudraB · 03-21-2010, 03:51 AM

dear friends,
I have a mobile broadband service that have a limit of 50 hours in day and 90 hours in night time.
Is there any way that I can watch how many hours i have used(i guess a script will do, but i dont know perl/python)in conky.
Is there someone who has done this? plz provide me the script or some other better idea

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-06-2010, 08:47 AM

Can you be more specific ? What do you mean by 50 hours in day ? The day is 12 hours long. Is this per week, per month ?

RudraB · 04-06-2010, 11:52 PM

its per month, but bottom line is can conky calculate?

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-07-2010, 04:17 AM

Conky just uses the output of other programs, so you'll have to write a script. I don't know how you connect to it, but you can write a timer that starts when you connect and stops when you disconnect and accumulates the time.