[TriLUG] RV:

[Mike Johnson]

Joseph Tate [jtate at dragonstrider.com] wrote:
> Top is not a program that I'd run from cron. All of the information that 
> is given through the top command is available on the /proc file system. 
> Check that out to see if you can get the information you want directly 
> instead of a readout from top. If you insist on using cron, try setting 
> the TERM environment variable in your script. Set it to something like 
> vt100 or xterm or linux or whatever you'd like.

If you want to run top out of cron, or a script, or something, look at
its man page and some of the options.  Here's a start/hint:
TERM=vt100 COLUMNS=500 top -n 1 -b -c

Note that these may be Linux specific.

Mike
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