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

From	Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.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 11:16 +0000
Organization	Ripco Communications Inc.
Message-ID	<o2r9m5$l10$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com> (permalink)
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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, if you want it once a day like at
3am, change it to:

00 03 * * * /usr/bin/top -l 1 -o cpu

The output is messy but the trick is with the "-l 1" which is basically
a snap shot of the top output (display once, then exit).

I'm sure with the other command line options you can trim it down quite a 
bit but I'd rather start with a full plate and take off the stuff that isn't
important.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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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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