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Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab
Date 2026-07-11 06:40 +0000
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:57:54 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> Wrote a short Python script that uses os.system() to run 'top' ...
> redirecting the output to a file. We then clean-up the weird chars in
> the file and append it to an ongoing log file.

I think we've been here before...

https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html

Yes, it's one of those hateful, newfangled functions that might work for 
you.

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Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-10 23:57 -0400
  Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-11 04:34 +0000
    Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-11 01:38 -0400
      Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-11 01:51 -0400
  Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-11 05:46 +0000
    Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-11 05:57 +0000
      Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-11 02:08 -0400
      Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-12 06:46 +0000
        Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-12 22:10 -0400
    Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-11 02:04 -0400
  Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-11 06:40 +0000
    Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-11 22:54 -0400
      Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-12 03:00 +0000
        Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-12 19:23 -0400
      Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-12 03:36 +0000
        Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-12 19:25 -0400
          Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-13 10:01 +0100
            Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-14 21:38 -0400
              Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-15 01:54 +0000
              Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-15 12:18 +0100
              Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-15 12:19 +0100

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