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Hi<BR>
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I have been running mrtg for many years on many different Linux boxes and have always had no problem with it. But now I am in desperate need of assistance. <BR>
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I am running Fedora 12 and installed mrtg from the Fedora repository:<BR>
mrtg-2.16.2-4.fc12.x86_64<BR>
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I am only monitoring ONE device and have set the following entry in root's crontab file:<BR>
*/5 * * * * env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg<BR>
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There are a number of interfaces being monitored on the device. The CFG file was configured with cfgmaker.<BR>
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THE PROBLEM: Every few hours the logfile entries are reset to ZEROS through out the file, a few hours into the log file. It is apparently random, in that if I look at the graphs they all cut off at different times over the last 24 hours. So the graphs have only a few hours on each of them before flattening to zero.<BR>
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The log of each process is mailed to root. They have varying entries looking like this:<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_4.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_5.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_9.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_14<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_14.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_15.tmp to 196.211.186.105_15.log updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_16<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_16.log to 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_17<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_17.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_17.tmp to 196.211.186.105_17.log updating log file<BR>
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Unforunately EVERY poll has some of these errors, and they are not necessarily always the same sub-interfaces giving the errors.<BR>
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Then I found a disturbing entry reading as follows:<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_5.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_9.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_10.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_12.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_15.old updating log file<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_17.old updating log file<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410.<BR>
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There is PLENTY of disk space, and the box is not at all busy. <BR>
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Any ideas??<BR>
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MANY thanks,<BR>
Louis van Dyk
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