diff -up smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/createlinks.poller smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/createlinks
--- smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/createlinks.poller	2013-11-21 11:29:41.000000000 -0500
+++ smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/createlinks	2013-11-21 11:31:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ for my $event (qw(
     templates2events("/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf", $event);
     templates2events("/etc/cacti/db.php", $event);
     safe_symlink("sigusr1", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/httpd-e-smith");
+    templates2events("/etc/crontab", $event);
+    safe_symlink("restart", "root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/crond");
 }
 
 templates2events("/etc/e-smith/sql/init/80cacti", "post-upgrade");
diff -up smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab/86cacti.poller smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab/86cacti
--- smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab/86cacti.poller	2013-11-21 11:33:03.000000000 -0500
+++ smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab/86cacti	2013-11-21 11:36:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# cacti poller:
+{
+if ($cacti{'status'} eq "enabled")
+	{
+	$OUT .="*/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &\n";
+	}
+else
+	{
+	 $OUT .="# cacti disabled";
+	}
+}
diff -up smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates.metadata/etc/cacti/db.php.poller smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates.metadata/etc/cacti/db.php
--- smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates.metadata/etc/cacti/db.php.poller	2013-10-12 19:00:12.000000000 -0400
+++ smeserver-cacti-0.8.8b/root/etc/e-smith/templates.metadata/etc/cacti/db.php	2013-11-21 11:32:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-UID="root"
+UID="cacti"
 GID="www"
 PERMS=0640