From: Carl Lerche <carl.lerche@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T16:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: `ps -ax` gets cut off when run from cron

Hey, that did it! Dumb of me not to check the man pages for ps...  
didn't think of it.

Thanks for the help!
-carl

On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Paul Battley wrote:

> 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
>