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 <[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
