Cron Confusion.. Continued... *ugh*

Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold friz at godshell.com
Tue Sep 6 22:59:12 EDT 2005


Hi all,

I haven't seen a response to the below message, so I'm re-posting it. 
Does anyone know the answer to this?  Is anyone using the cron feature?

Thanks!

Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:

>*Help!*
>
>I'm apparently missing something, or doing something wrong, or maybe
>even completely misunderstanding this feature..  The goal is to
>automatically override at 4 am, for an hour.  The example on the
>documentation page of the site actually has 6 fields in the cron
>command, but I was told previously that that was incorrect...
>
>I'm running Argus dev-20050720
>
>So, here's a snippet of my config.  Can someone please tell me what I'm
>doing wrong??
>
>         Service SYS/disk {
>            uname: usr2
>            label: usr2
>            arg: /usr2
>            graph: yes
>            maxvalue: 5
>            cron "0 4 * * *" {
>               func: override
>               text: Backup In Progress
>               expires: 3600
>               mode: manual
>            }
>         }
>
>This is from the log last night :
>
>Wed 31 Aug 04:49:27 2005 	up 	TRANSITION - up
>Wed 31 Aug 04:24:27 2005 	down 	TRANSITION - down
>
>
>It *did* work..  once...  :
>
>Wed 24 Aug 05:00:49 2005 	up 	OVERRIDE - removed by system
>Wed 24 Aug 05:00:49 2005 	up 	OVERRIDE - expired
>Wed 24 Aug 04:44:27 2005 	up 	TRANSITION - up
>Wed 24 Aug 04:00:49 2005 	down 	OVERRIDE - enabled by *internal-cronjob*
>Wed 24 Aug 04:00:49 2005 	down 	OVERRIDE - Backup In Progress
>
>
>  
>


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