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

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:46:23 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

> When I run `env -i top` I get _no_ output at all.

It needs the TERM environment variable to be defined:

    env -i TERM=xterm top

produces a top display.
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