Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report?
Date	2016-12-14 16:08 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-12-14, Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>
>> Any and all wisdom bestowed upon me is appreciated :-)
>
> If do know your way around cron and crontab -e, these two lines should
> do it:
>
> MAILTO=email@domain.com
> 00,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/top -l 1 -o cpu
>
> That will send a report every 15 minutes

Yep. 

Note: This will do the same thing and is more concise and flexible (just
change the 15 to whatever interval you want):

MAILTO = email@domain.com
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/top -l 1 -o cpu

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Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2016-12-14 06:49 +1300
  Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-12-13 20:51 +0000
  Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-13 23:34 +0000
    Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2016-12-14 21:24 +1300
      Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 16:12 +0000
  Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-12-14 11:16 +0000
    Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 16:08 +0000
      Re: Easy way to have each Mac send me a daily system status report? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2016-12-16 04:29 +1300

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