_____/ On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:12, [ERACC] wrote : \_____
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:17:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> I am trying to access usage stats remotely, so every 10 minutes the
>> following gets executed:
>>
>> top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
>>
>> The cron job comes up with the following error:
>>
>> "TERM environment variable not set."
>>
>> When I run the command as myself, there appears to be no problem. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roy
>
> Try:
>
> TERM=linux
> export TERM
> top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
YES! Thank you. You got it right the first time:
http://baine.smb.man.ac.uk:8001/caption.txt
This seems similar to the way I got around grabbing a screenshot as cron,
namely:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> OR try:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
>
> OR try:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> TERM=linux
> top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
>
> ... in your script that gets run by cron. IIRC using the /bin/bash
> route uses whatever bash has as a default TERM. Not certain of that
> though thus the third example. The top program needs to know the
> TERM(inal) used so it can format the output.
>
> One or the other should work to set your TERM variable to something
> useable by cron.
This is where you are far ahead of me. *smile*
> BTW, you really want to APPEND '>>' to that file forever? I forsee it
> getting rather large after a week or more of use.
To put it in context:
http://www.schestowitz.com/Utilities/Complete/Linux/Display_Grabber/
I am still working on that page, which is not public yet.
> Also the '~' will
> not expand to YOUR home directory when the job runs under cron so
> replace that with the full path to whatever directory you want to use
> to store the file. Like /home/roy/public_html/caption.txt for
> example.
>
> Gene (e-mail: gene \a\t eracc \d\o\t com)
Good point. I might change the path, locally at least.
Many thanks!
Roy
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