From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T15:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: `ps -ax` gets cut off when run from cron

Carl Lerche wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a simple ruby script that writes the content of `ps -ax` to a
> file, when I call it myself, it runs fine, however when I set the
> script in a cron job and cron calls it, the output is truncated at 80
> characters, which is quite annoying. Any ideas as to why this is?

Code? Remember that cron jobs run in a different environment, often with
different permissions.

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