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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 2026-07-15 01:54 +0000
Message-ID <nbo7hrFd2h5U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:38:03 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    These forums exist because there are enough people, each with their
>    particular areas of expertise and experience, that can chime in. The
>    "-b" info was "good enough", but *explained* made that even better.

man top

-b, --batch
Starts top in Batch mode, which could be useful for sending output from 
top  to other  programs or to a file.  In this mode, top will not accept 
input and runs until the iterations limit you've set with  the  `-n' 
command-line  option  or until killed.

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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 c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-16 01:17 -0400
                Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-16 16:00 +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 c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-16 01:39 -0400
              Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-15 12:19 +0100
                Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-16 02:24 -0400

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