[wplug] Crontab command parameters

[William Powell]

I am trying to pass parameters to a command in my crontab file, but they 
seem to be ignored or  misunderstood.

I am trying to learn why this machine is locking up.  I wanted to mail 
myself a single iteration of the output from the "top" command.

Here is a copy of my crontab file:

MAILTO=bill
0-59/15 0-23/1 * * * top n1


Here is a copy of the mail I receive based on the above crontab file:

 From bill  Wed May 28 08:55:01 2003
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:55:00 -0400
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: bill
Subject: Cron <bill> top n1
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=bill>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/bill>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=bill>

top: tcgetattr() failed: Invalid argument


I am trying to achieve the same functionality in the crontab item that I 
get from the following command:

top n1 | mail -s "system status" bill


I suspect the problem is in how I need to be quoting the command string 
in the crontab, but  several different attempts have  failed to change 
the results.

Thanks,
Bill

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