[mrtg] Re: can ThreshProg be a perl script?

[alex at ergens.op.Het.Net]

Rolen, Mark E. wrote:

> I set ThreshMaxO to an extremely low value so that my ThreshProgO gets run
> on every instance of mrtg.  When ThreshProg is a shell script, it runs fine,
> but when I put a PERL script in there that does nothing but open a file and
> print "yep" into it (and which runs sucessfully from the command line), it
> seems to never be run...  It's not a permissions problem with writing to the
> file, as both scripts write to the same file.

Try running MRTG from the command line.  If it works in that case, the
problem is in your PATH setting when run from cron.  Using full paths
in the script will help in that case.

regards,
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