Running TOP using crontab

From: <NSYSTEM_at_beau.nb.rockwell.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 16:38:14 -0800 (PST)

Hello,

I am running a ksh script every half an hour using crontab.
In the script I have an entry as follows:

nohup /root/bin/top |grep "Processes" >> $log_file

And I put the script containing the entry above into
the crontab as follows

00,30 * * * * /root/general/work > /root/general/work.log 2>&1

I am unable to get results from the grep command because
something is not right when TOP starts. I get errors

top: can't allocate sufficient memory
top: can't allocate sufficient memory

in my work.log file. I am trying to get the number of processes
and the memory usage to output to a log file. I appreciate any
suggestions. When I tried running the script by issuing

  ./work

I was able to get the result from the grep command, but it will
not work when I run it using the crontab. Thanks.
Received on Thu Mar 02 1995 - 19:39:49 NZDT

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