On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:19 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > In a terminal type: > > top -bd 30 > topout.txt > > which will cause top to run in batch mode and delay 30 seconds each time. > Nothing will show in the terminal. Press ^C when you want it to stop. You > could detach (&) the command but then it would be harder to stop, and new > terminal windows are easy to make. The file will have lots of copies of a > full top list, giving you some history to work from. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> Actually you could do a ps -A and then kill "pid", or pkill. Check the man pages for these commands. -- John H Ludwig Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!! I'm not schitziod! I got better tomorrow.