<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>Sure, that's fine; here, for example, I create a user called "mrtg" and a group called "mrtg",<br>and then I install all the mrtg files into /home/mrtg; binary files go in /home/mrtg/bin/,<br>the data files go in /home/mrtg/data/, configs go in /home/mrtg/cfgs/<br><br>Then, I <br>"chown -R mrtg:mrtg /home/mrtg"<br>and<br>chmod 2775 /home/mrtg /home/mrtg/data /home/mrtg/cfgs<br><br>That way, anyone in the "mrtg" group can work on the mrtg files<br>without needing root access. Any users that you want to be able<br>to work on your mrtg tree, just add them to the "mrtg" group in /etc/groups,<br>and voila, no more need to run things as root.<br><br>That way, all your crontab entries are also stored in the
crontab for<br>the mrtg user, and are easily spottable when running "ps" or "top"<br>as separate from the root processes.<br><br>Hope that helps!<br><br>Matt<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Ogunmadewa, Oludare" <oludare.ogunmadewa@wachovia.com><br>To: mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>Cc: oludare1@netzero.com<br>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:29:22 AM<br>Subject: [mrtg] Request: MRTG Installation and Configuration on Linux<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Friends,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Novice needs help.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Current environment:</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">OS=</span></font> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">2.6.5-7.286-smp
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Libgd= gd-2.0.22-65.14</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mrtg= mrtg-2.10.13-44.1</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Apache= apache2-2.0.59-1.1</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Net-SNMP= net-snmp-5.1.3.1-0.18</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I will like to limit or eliminate requirements for “root”
to manage/administer MRTG.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am thinking of re-installing MRTG and necessary tools in a
non-root file systems like /fire/ (/fire will is owned by another user).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Questions:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">How can I have “root” install MRTG and other tools
so that another assigned user can have access to manage and administer MRTG?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Is it possible for me to install MRTG (to monitor cpu, memory,
disk space, files, swap, services and daemons) for html graphs and alert
notifications?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Do you have other advice for me?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for your help and input.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Oludare</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">703.932.1111</span></font></p>
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