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Floid
03-19-2002, 10:48 PM
I tried several scripts which are calling the top command into a browser but none works on my Raq3. They are working from the command line. I'm a newbie to web server administration/Linux, what can I do about this?

cyrusTvirus
03-20-2002, 04:35 AM
Hi,

Why would you call top from a browser. It is I think I think a potential security risk. Imagine what happens when a spider of a search engine comes to that website. Everyone in the world can find the page then and also see what processes are running on your box then.

I would think it over twice before I would do such a thing.
Running the command top from the SSH prompt is much more safe I think.

cyansmoker
03-20-2002, 06:18 AM
CyrusTvirus,
it may be running it in a protected area of his server...

anyway, to run in batch mode, don't forget to invoke it as follow:
top -b -n 1
-Chris.