[smokeping-users] Restarting smokeping

[Matthew Ford]

On 1 Feb 2012, at 13:56, Darren Murphy wrote:

> 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?
> 

Yes, PID unchanged, process start time unchanged. But...

>> 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.
>>> 

This led me to redirect output to a file instead, which helped trace the issue - cron PATH did not include /sbin, so no way to find start-stop-daemon.

All working now :)

Thanks!

Mat


















>>> /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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