crontab for services

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:28 pm

I have a serviceschk already and it works because i ./serviceschk 'd it and it worked but i am having trouble with the .cron file i tried

0,01,02,03,04,05 * * * * /www0/chatnet/auspices/serviceschk

because i want it to check for services running every minute, and it doesnt work. anyone know what i did wrong?

WilliamWIkked · Post by **WilliamWIkked** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:59 pm

did you chmod the file?, and edit the file? (if nescessary)

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:32 pm

yes sir

codemastr · Post by **codemastr** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:13 am

Well first off, that won't check every minute, that will check on minute 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of each hour. That leaves minutes 6-59 unchecked. You want to use an *. Whoever told you that 0,1,2,3,4,5 was the proper way to check every minute didn't know what he was talking about.

Secondly, did you actually install the cron job? Simply creating the file isn't enough, you must actually tell crontab to load it.

pete212 · Post by **pete212** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:08 pm

of course i installed it lol :p -- would :

*/1 * * * * /www0/ianet/auspices/serviceschk

work?

AngryWolf · Post by **AngryWolf** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:23 am

I think yes. This is the kind of question that many people usually answer with "try it and see the result".

Well, the serviceschk script does what it should (as you said, manually running works fine), so I don't think there would be any problems. Yet it's always good to double-check whether your crontab configuration is loaded right by running the command "crontab -l".