longtroll

Detect long-running processes and notify you when they're done.

Using longtroll

longtroll pretty much does what it says on the box. In order to start detecting long-running processes, run longtroll.py bind in your shell. From then on, when a long-running process in that shell finishes, your notification command will be called.

Before you start using longtroll, you need to create a configuration file. A sample configuration file can be found in the repository as longtrollrc-sample. Copy this file to ~/.longtrollrc, or create your own. The configuration file takes two options: seconds and notify, as follows:

seconds 10
notify echo <cmd> (pid <pid>) completed | wall

seconds is the number of seconds that a process has to live before it is considered "long-running". notify is a command that will be run when your process completes. The tokens <cmd> and <pid> will automatically be replaced by the command and the PID of the process that completed.

Roadmap

• Add a longtroll.py unbind command
• Allow configuration of the poll time
• Some kind of notification method for when a long-running process is detected