From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T16:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: `ps -ax` gets cut off when run from cron

On 08/09/06, Carl Lerche <carl.lerche@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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? I
> have my PATH set in the crontab:

Try `ps -axwww` instead.

Paul