Cron vs. Command Line Problems

[Michael Gargiullo]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 10:59, David Cary Hart wrote:
> I have snort set up as a service. From the command line I can do
> "service snort restart" and it performs precisely as expected.
> 
> Snort requires a restart after log rotate or it follows the old
> alert.log. I have tried to do this a) via a cronned script, b) in the
> logrotate script and c) by simply cronning the restart command line with
> no joy.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Don't know if you've gotten an answer, but have you tried.

02 4 * * * root /etc/init.d/snort restart

in crontab ?