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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
