From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 10:39:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forkbomb.martini.nu (forkbomb.martini.nu [204.118.247.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB4B937B401 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:39:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reich@forkbomb.martini.nu) Received: (qmail 5702 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Aug 2001 17:39:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:39:48 -0700 From: Mahlon Smith To: Todd Reed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Message-ID: <20010803103945.A4976@internetcds.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "ex279@hotmail.com" on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:34:38AM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 03, 2001, Todd Reed wrote: > I'm stil trying to get MRTG to run in crontab! I tried using vi to edit the > /etc/crontab and adding the lines. I also tried to use crontab -e and I > still am having trouble. I've attached the /etc/crontab. I'm not sure > where I'm going wrong. I'm wanting to run MRTG every fine minutes. And > I've tried everything I've been told. Any help is appreciated. Not sure why you included your crontab without the example of what you are currently trying... This syntax -does- work. */5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg If it doesn't, run it manually to make sure it's not an error in your cfg file, and of course - verify that your cron daemon is running. -- Mahlon Smith System Administrator InternetCDS http://www.internetcds.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message