`ps -ax` gets cut off when run from cron

Ruby
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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? I
have my PATH set in the crontab:

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

Thanks,
Carl L.

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Carl L. 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.

3

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

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On 08/09/06, Carl L. [email protected] 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