[smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping

[Darren Murphy]

Mat,

Probably a silly question, but how do you know for sure that it isn't
restarting?
eg. Have you compared the PID from before and after the cron task is
executed, and confirmed that it hasn't changed?

cheers,
Darren

On 1 February 2012 21:23, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
> Initially I was trying to do this without redirecting the output, but there was none.
>
> Mat
>
> On 1 Feb 2012, at 12:48, Lars Thegler wrote:
>
>> Try removing the '>/dev/null 2>&1' and see if the resulting output (if
>> any) gives you any clues.
>>
>> /Lars
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm at a loss.
>>>
>>> I can restart smokeping quite happily from the command line:
>>>
>>> # /etc/init.d/smokeping restart
>>> Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>> Starting latency logger daemon: smokeping.
>>>
>>> But I cannot get smokeping to restart either using cron directly or by putting the restart command in a shell script, and adding that to my crontab.
>>>
>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19052]: (root) CMD (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>> Jan 31 11:52:01 gigondas /USR/SBIN/CRON[19051]: (root) END (/etc/init.d/smokeping restart >/dev/null 2>&1)
>>>
>>> Any clue appreciated.
>>>
>>> Mat
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