Re: cron style service poll time not functioning since update to 5.10

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

> On 17 Nov 2014, at 19:28, Paul Theodoropoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I have a service check that I disable while backups are running on a 
> particular server. Since upgrading from 5.8.1 to 5.10, the cron declaration 
> appears to no longer work - I've started getting alerts during that time 
> since the upgrade.
> 
> Here's how I have it set up -
> 
> check program servercomm-db1 with path /usr/local/bin/check_server_wrapper 
> with timeout 25 seconds
> not every "40-50 0 * * *"
> 
> I checked the manual, and that appears to be a valid config. Thoughts?

This should work, please check that you do not have a a second (old) monit 
instance running in the background or that the every-cron string is specified 
as you think it is. Right now, Monit is specified to skip this check every 
night between 00:40-00:50.