On 07/08/2010 03:13 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Is there a way to log output from top to a log file at a preset time > interval (say, every 5 seconds)? The system in question is running > Fedora 9. > > cheers, > Sameer Run "top -b -n 1 >> SomeLogFile.log" in a cron job? BTW, that's going to be a *very* big log file if you do that every 5 seconds. DR