
  This is vboxcountd, written by Andreas H. Mueller in 1998.

 This program just writes the number of calls in your vbox - spooldirectorys to
an double 7-segment-display, attached to a printerport. Run 'make config' to set
the default-port and the default-delay between updates.
 Note that vboxcountd counts only  up to nine messages.  The second display will
be used only for a short flash  while updating the display,  so you can see that
vboxcountd is still alive  and  running,  even if you have disabled the flashing
point of the right display,  using the '-f' - option. If more than nine messages
were counted, vboxcountd will still display nine. So if you want to connect only
a single display, feel free to do so.
 vboxcountd will fork itself to a daemon  (you don't need to run it with an '&')
write its PID to "/var/run/vboxcountd-IOADDR.pid"  (Or whatever the _PATH_VARRUN
in your paths.h is).
 You can issue an nearly unlimited count of '-d SPOOL-DIR'-options (How much RAM
sits in your machine, eh? ;-) ) to let vboxcountd monitor others users spooldirs
too.
 Applying the '-n' - option will cause  vboxcountd not to use the default-spool-
directory (/var/spool/vbox/USER/incoming).
 With '-s DELAY' you can set the DELAY between updates in the display. Note that
for every update the given directorys will be rescanned.
 '-p PORT' lets you override the compiled-in defaultport. Useful when using more
than one display on one port. (Or if you don't want to recompile.)
 I think --help and --version are self-explanatory.
 The last interisting thing may be the sending of a  SIGINT  to the daemon. This
causes vboxcountd to dump its current configuration to the syslog.
 I hope someone will find this useful.

	Andreas H. Mueller, Apr. 1998.
	(cameron@RadioFlora.apc.de)

