DiskSpaceMonitor running hourly not as specified in crontab

[Mark]

hi,

i set up diskspacemonitor according to the instructions in an article on this website. i set the frequency for the diskspacemonitor check to run in the roots crontab to be 1440 minutes. however it is checking hourly. i changed the time to 720 minutes but it is still running hourly. no crontab exists for the admin login account. any ideas how i can fix would be welcome.

$ cat system.log
Feb 18 03:15:01 macserver2 syslogd: restart
Feb 18 04:00:00 macserver2 CRON[5390]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/diskspacemonitor check)

$ sudo crontab -l
*/720 * * * * /usr/sbin/diskspacemonitor check

$ cat diskspacemonitor.conf
# Config for diskspacemonitor
#

monitor_interval=720 # Check disks at this interval, in minutes

alert_threshold=85 # When a disk is this percentage full, execute
# the alert scripts in
# /etc/diskspacemonitor/action/

recovery_threshold=95 # When a disk is this percentage full, execute
# the recovery scripts in
# /etc/diskspacemonitor/action/

log_file=/var/log/diskspacemonitor.log

[bustthis]

i was going to ask this question because for my server every 60 minutes seems a bit too excessive. i think you are limited to 60 minutes, unless you hack /usr/sbin/diskspacemonitor… i could be completely wrong though

[Mark]

i think i resolved the problem. i modified my crontab as follows:

$ sudo crontab -l
@daily /usr/sbin/diskspacemonitor check

and so far it appears to be working as i hoped. i suspect the max number of minutes is probably 59. anything larger and it uses 60.

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