botchk...:(

[Jheremias]

Hello guys and happy new year:)

An odd happening: I have set up botchk, it is working on doing ./botchk, but crontab doesn't run it....

I added at crontab (crontab -e) the following line:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/baron/Focus/botchk >/dev/null 2>&1

When i .die the bot, it doesn't come up..If I run ./botchk it works and the bot runs!!

Any ideas? :p

[ppslim]

Two possible reasons.

First, I sugest using the autobotchk script, as it will do the job of making sure everything is in working order before you go too a live test.

Second, I wouldn't run a cron script that often when 99.9% of the time, it isn't actualy gonna do anything special. However, for testing, it will speed things up for you.

Third, have you checked your shells email, to see if crontab sent you an e-mail. It's well worth doing this, by removing the >/dev/null and onwards part in the crontab. This will tell you exactly why eggdrop didn't load.

Forth, and most important. Is crond actualy running? It could be that it isn't loaded, or possibly that it is stale/frozen. This requires manual intervention, as without crond, no timed events take place, not even those to report freezes (unless perminant monitoring software is running and not stale).