I think that did it.....
I'll be monitoring
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On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:51 AM, James Melin wrote:
> It is not firing.... I'm not sure if I have the syntax correct to have
> it
> run every 3 min
>
> 1-59/3 * * * * cd /home/statmon ; status.sh 1> /dev/null 2>
> /dev/null
>
> If I understand this correctly Minutes 1-59, every three minutes, is
> what I
> am asking it to do....
>
> I used the crontab -e {username} per your suggestion, but it appears to
> have changed nothing.
>
The current directory should not be in the Unix path. So try making
the command
. /home/statmon/status.sh 1&2>/dev/null
and see if that helps. (I assume status.sh doesn't need to be run from
/home/statmon, but if so, cd there first.
Adam
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