[thelist] redirecting top output.....

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Tue Nov 6 16:47:31 CST 2001


At 02:36 PM 11/6/2001, you wrote:
>Can you use whatever scripting language to exec 'top -s -n1 > 
>yourfile.dump' ? Then read the dump file in to have your wicked way?

Anytime I try to redirect the top output I get something like this:

         top -s -n1 >file.name
         top: cannot open /dev/kmem: Permission denied
         kvm_open: Permission denied


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