___/ On Thursday 25 August 2005 14:59, [Kevin Nathan] wrote : \___
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:38:16 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> which appears to have done the trick. Declaring a TERM assignment
>> alone without 'export' seems to be insufficient.
>>
>
> Depends on how you do it and if you want it to remain changed. If you
> want TERM to remain changed after:
>
> export TERM=linux
> top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
>
> or:
>
> export TERM=linux ; top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
I added just a call to an external script among the cron definitions, so the
latter is unnecessary.
> If you don't want TERM to remain after:
>
> TERM=linux top -b -n 1 >> ~/public_html/caption.txt
Now, that's interesting, but I don't understand what difference it would
make it TERM remained afterwards. You are just well ahead of me, I guess.
Anyhow, here is the outcome of it all to put things in context:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/25/screen-and-usage-grabber/
Thanks for all the help!
Roy
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