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Pieter de Boer wrote:

>
>> The script thats being ran by cron does a 'ps x |grep test.pl'.  and
>> prases the output from test.pl, but since cron is limiting the char
>> length, its not parsing the output right.
>
> ps -xw ?
>
Yeah. That was the problem.