How to automate creating sosreport in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 without user interaction?

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Issue

  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 shipped version of sosreport, there is an option --batch which run the command sosreport without any user interaction, is there any way to make the same possible in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?
  • Need to set up a crontab to capture sosreport automatically, but in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, no --batch mode available, how can that be done?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • sosreport

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