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Subject: Re: cron limit
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, junk wrote:

> 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.

Yeah that would be correct but still just might want to go with a couple
more "w"'s for instance just one will still cut off to a certain point
so a (ps auxwww) will make sure it gets everything and feeds back the
proper information. Sorry I didnt remember that right away.

Best luck & wishes:
 	--c0ldbyte

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