<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Nick,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But won't Apple be looking for more things than top provides? I wonder if they're looking for more information such as when you get a kernel panic or when an app crashes and you can send the bug report to them. I'm talking about all that crazy text that shows up in Console logs and such.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there some sort of Terminal command for a "system state" or something?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 22, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Nick Scalise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I just realized that if you SSH in, your 'location' will be on that box and so the file will not write to the box you were SSH'ing from. But that should be OK. While SSH'ed in, output the file, then reboot the box from your SSH session by typing:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">sudo shutdown -r NOW</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Then when the box comes back up, you will still have that text file saved off.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>