[mrtg] Re: script problem

[Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt]

Is Bourne shell your normal shell environment? mrtg has always seemed
pretty robust in this respect (kudos Tobi), but I've often found 
weirdnesses in my own Perl scripts that were shell-dependent. Can
you post mail-stats.sh?

	-g

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Robin Kearney wrote:

> okay I tried:
> a) running mrtg from the command line, nothing
> b) redirecting stderr, creates and empty file :(
> c) making sure everybody can run the script, yes they can.
> 
> This is what I have in mrtg.cfg:
> 
> Target[mail]: `/home/httpd/html/mrtg/mail-stats.sh 2>/tmp/mail-stats.err`
> MaxBytes[mail]: 150
> Options[mail]: gauge
> Title[mail]: dent Sendmail Statistics
> PageTop[mail]: dent Sendmail Statistics</H1>
> WithPeak[mail]: dwmy
> YLegend[mail]: No. of messages
> ShortLegend[mail]: messages
> LegendI[mail]: &nbsp;Incoming:
> LegendO[mail]: &nbsp;Outgoing:
> 
> 
> nothing strange or unusual.  the output is at http://dent.riviera.org.uk/mrtg/mail.html as you can see nothing :(
> 
> I thought it might just be a lack of mail, it is a new box, so I ran "while (true) ; do ; mail robin at funmail.co.uk < /etc/hosts ; sleep 10 ; done" from the cmd line, and watched the output from mail-stats rocket up as expected, but still nothing on the 
graphs.
> 
> Anybody have any further ideas?
> 
> 
> 


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