Hi tim Thank you for your help 1/ shift+page up works 2/ For the top - When top in procps version 3.2.0 the output file is empty? - When top in procps version 2.0.17 The file is fine but the output is truncated eg: "/usr/sbin/htt" as follow Do you know how to have whole file eg: "/usr/sbin/httpd xxxxx" Thank you again 4562 mysql 16 0 14564 3804 2452 S 0.0 0.1 0:36 0 /usr/libexec/ 4996 root 16 0 16284 2240 2140 S 0.0 0.1 2:04 0 /usr/bin/perl 5038 root 16 0 2652 1928 1800 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 sendmail: sm- 5077 root 21 5 20792 2348 2348 S N 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 /usr/bin/spam 5881 root 16 0 41676 15M 15596 S 0.0 0.7 2:50 0 /usr/sbin/htt 6166 postgres 16 0 1452 1168 1104 S 0.0 0.0 0:30 0 /usr/bin/post 6234 postgres 16 0 2780 1484 1472 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 0 postgres: sta --- Tim Edwards <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > adrian kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I have the following questions > > > > 1/ do you know how to interrupt the console to > capture > > the message when the system is in booting > > try shift+page up > > Otherwise you can seem them once its booted up by > running dmesg as root > > > 2/ I use "top" to monitor the process to output > the > > file. but the file is empty. Do you know why? > > top uses curses to output stuff so its probably not > the best thing to > output stuff to files, although if you do 'top > > /tmp/filename' it seems > to work. Might be better to have a look at ps if you > want to do this. > > -- > Tim Edwards > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >