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Subject: Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab
Date: 11 Jul 2026 06:40:50 GMT
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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.