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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>*/5 * * * * root [ -x /</span><span lang=EN-US 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 style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Or even…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve Shipway</span></b><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITS Unix Services Design Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>University of Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span 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 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 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 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><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:green'>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> : </span><span lang=ZH-TW style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:green'>打印本</span><span lang=ZH-TW style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU;color:green'>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></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joel Roberts<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 16 May 2013 8:53 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] MRTG not running by default after reboot<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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 lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Joel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>