On Saturday 29 November 2003 17:15, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:06, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > OK so the box crashed again after being up less than an hour. It was > > running gtk-gnutella mplayer kmail and one MoxillaFirebird brower. > > the /var/log/messages shows nothing. I've openet 2 konsoles on my > > desktop after disabling the screen saver and the plan is to run top > > in one and ps aux in the other. > > What I'd like to do is run ps aux every 30 seconds or so to see if it > > catches something I'm overlooking. I've looked around to see how to > > automate that without success. Can someone give me a command that > > will loop the ps aux command? > >
<snip> > Try the following bash: > > while true; do ps aux; sleep 5; done > > to update the output every 5 seconds. Use Ctrl+C to stop it. You can also use the "watch" command, e.g. "watch ps aux" would run "ps aux" every 2 seconds and display the results. If you want to run it every 30 seconds just do "watch -n 30 ps aux". "man watch" for details. BTW, watch is in sys-apps/procps package, so you already have it. Hope that helps. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
