crontab

[monitorman]

I've got Cacti setup, and I'm sure I've gone through the installation thoroughly (well almost if it's not quite working), but I'm seeing no graphs appear from the localhost (the default ones), neither am I seeing graphs from Percona MySQL templates. My only doubt is in the crontab, my crontab currently looks like below

*/5 * * * * php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /home/monitorman/poller.log 2>&1

When I type the user as the documentation states (see below), the crontab doesn't process the user, and it prints an error to the poller.log. interpreting 'monitorman' as a linux program.

*/5 * * * * monitorman php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /home/monitorman/poller.log 2>&1

Before I relook at this again, my questions are:

1) Do I need to setup a user explicitly called 'cactiuser' for the poller.php to run?

2) Why does the second crontab statement fail?

Appreciate any responses.

[monitorman]

Just to point out I'm using Cacti v0.88

[paulgevers]

Not sure, but I remember that crontab does not allow to provide the user to run, you need an entry in cron.d (I think).