8 Nov
2013
8 Nov
'13
11:43 p.m.
On 2013-11-08 22:36, Ross Ashley wrote:
Nothing surprises me about the inability of users to follow instructions. I thought a root crontab was the same as specifying a user of root in the /etc/crontab. I learned a little something today.
They are actually the same thing. It's likely that there was some other error.
You should probably have put the stuff in /etc/cron.d/observium, that's the 'modern' way to do it.
We wrote the guide specifically so people could copy/paste and not actually have to think for themselves. The number of silly mistakes we get like this is astronomical.
*/5 * * * * /opt/observium/poller-wrapper.php 2 >> /dev/nul
This line is broken, if that's what was really in the cron... :)
adam.