restart automatically a service

mox88 · May 27, 2010, 10:39am

Hello

I have a box Suse 11.1 with a service that (I don’t know why) every day stop at the same time. I’m finding why it come to a halt but in the meantime I would like restart it automatically.
As root I insert in crontab the line:

25 16 * * * /etc/init.d/service start
But it don’t’ works

If I launch manually /etc/init.d/service start (or stop) it works!
What I’am wrong? How I can automatically restart the service?

Thanks

knurpht · May 27, 2010, 10:55am

Yast - System - runlevel editor. The ‘service’ should be there, you can activate it, so that it starts at boot time.

DenverD · May 27, 2010, 11:52am

Knurpht wrote:
> Yast - System - runlevel editor. The ‘service’ should be there, you can
> activate it, so that it starts at boot time.

yes, but he said it stops running at the same time each day [have
another espresso! ]…which i guess means he has a cron (or
cron driven script) which is killing the service (and maybe the script
is not restarting it, or is sending an error)…

and, all he has to do is find that cron and stop it from killing the
service (or fix the script so it restarts as expected)…

i think a look at /var/log/messages around the time the service is
stopped will probably give some clues about what is going on…

knurpht · May 27, 2010, 12:02pm

Thanks DD. I missed that.

@mox88: please post output of:


su -c 'crontab -l'

It would be good if you let us know what the service is, it could be set in some config files, and those do not always live in the same places.