Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5 hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea of how else I can track this down?
Ernie On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:35 am, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 17:15, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:06, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > OK so the box crashed again after being up less than an hour. > > > It was running gtk-gnutella mplayer kmail and one > > > MoxillaFirebird brower. the /var/log/messages shows nothing. > > > I've openet 2 konsoles on my desktop after disabling the screen > > > saver and the plan is to run top in one and ps aux in the > > > other. > > > What I'd like to do is run ps aux every 30 seconds or so to > > > see if it catches something I'm overlooking. I've looked around > > > to see how to automate that without success. Can someone give > > > me a command that will loop the ps aux command? > > <snip> > > > Try the following bash: > > > > while true; do ps aux; sleep 5; done > > > > to update the output every 5 seconds. Use Ctrl+C to stop it. > > You can also use the "watch" command, e.g. "watch ps aux" would run > "ps aux" every 2 seconds and display the results. If you want to > run it every 30 seconds just do "watch -n 30 ps aux". "man watch" > for details. BTW, watch is in sys-apps/procps package, so you > already have it. > > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
