[mrtg] keep getting cron warning mails even...

Evan Platt evan at espphotography.com
Tue Jan 20 20:35:03 CET 2009


At 10:01 AM 1/20/2009, you wrote:
>*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg > /dev/null 2>/dev/null

This might be O/S specific, so it may help to mention what O/S, but I 
have a Mac, and I use
  >  /dev/null 2>&1

(Don't know if spaces are important).

You could try a cron job of say ls /var/log every 10 minutes until 
you get it working (rather than having to wait all day). 



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