>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 Then your scripting language is running as nobody/nogroup, or some such non-privileged user. I can't think of any way to get around this, I'm afraid. -- Andrew Forsberg --- uberNET - http://uber.net.nz/ the pander - http://thepander.co.nz/