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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">That was it, was the time syntax. Working fine now, thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Joel <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Steve Shipway [mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joel Roberts; 'mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MRTG not running by default after reboot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">Does that time syntax work in your version of cron? For some, you’d need to use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">*/5 * * * * root [ -x /</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">usr/bin/mrtg -a -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ] && env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg >> /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log
2>&1</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">Or even…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * root …..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">Also check permissions etc on the file in cron.d to make sure it is actually being processed. Try putting the definition (without the ‘root’ bit) directly in the root crontabs instead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D">Steve Shipway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">ITS Unix Services Design Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">University of Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Phone: +64 (0)9 3737599 ext 86487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">DDI: +64 (0)9 923 6487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Mobile: +64 (0)21 753 189<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Email:
<a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz"><span style="color:#595959">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:green;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">打印本</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU;color:green;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">邮件，将减少一棵树存活的机会</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch">mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch</a> [<a href="mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch">mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joel Roberts<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 16 May 2013 8:53 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch">mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] MRTG not running by default after reboot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just did a new install of mrtg, been a while since I’d done one so jumped through some hoops to get the index pages just the way I wanted them, but now when rebooting the server (Debian Linux 6), mrtg doesn’t run on its own, I have to execute:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">from the terminal to get it to start graphing again. I checked in /etc/cron.d, the mrtg file is there with the following entry:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">0-55/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ]; then env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg >> /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log 2>&1; fi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The log file listed in the cron job hasn’t been updated in 2 days either, even after manually starting mrtg. Any help in getting it to run automatically would be greatly
appreciated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joel<o:p></o:p></p>
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