[mrtg] MRTG / Linux / cron

[Neil Calvert]

Hi all

I recently ported mrtg over to Linux (redhat 6.0) and so far it's working good. The only fly in the ointment is getting cron to work. I have created a script which calls all the config files and things I need, and when run manually, this works fine. 

However when I tried using crontab to add it to the user crontab file, it accepts the file but doesn't appear to run when required. The crontab listing is below : 

[mrtguser at noclin mrtg-2.8.8]$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.4118 installed on Tue Sep 14 18:16:32 1999)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /apps/mrtg-2.8.8/mrtgsched

The aim is to have cron run the mrtgsched script every five minutes. The script itself specifies all config files and binaries by their fully qualified paths so I don't think it's a path related issue. Besides, there isn't any mail being sent to the mrtg user - I understand cron would send a mail if it has problems running the file.

Has anyone experienced any similar issues and if so, how did they fix them?

Thanks,

Neil


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