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

On 7/11/26 02:40, rbowman wrote:
> 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.

   Um ... there are LOTS of 'monitoring' apps for Linux
   at this point - just did a survey a couple of days
   ago. Most are serious OVER-kill. They also tend to
   record SO much shit that you'll never be able to find
   YOUR particular problem in the mess.

   Anyway, the "-b" param to 'top' did do the trick.
   Still not sure why evoking from the CL is so different
   from evoking via crontab - but that's how it is.