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FS#11104 - vnstat cron.d entry fails to work properly.

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Sunday, 03 August 2008, 17:19 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Wednesday, 06 August 2008, 14:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Installing vnstat creates a cron entry in /etc/cron.d/vnstat

This is needed for vnstat to poll proc every 5 minutes to keep track of transfer going on across interfaces. For some reason it doesn't function properly. It wouldn't update for me. The cron logs looked clean. It was indeed trying to run the cron entry. It reported no errors other than mailer errors. I was able to fix this by putting the contents of /etc/cron.d/vnstat in the main cron entry (# crontab -e). Then it worked just fine. I would attempt to edit the PKGBUILD to do this, but I don't know if editing the main crontab is deemed appropriate packaging behavior, and I cannot figure out why the cron.d entry isn't working.
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Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Wednesday, 06 August 2008, 14:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  in vnstat-1.6-2

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