[mrtg] Re: annoying lockfile - help

[Adam Stanley]

I'm not an expert on MRTG running as a daemon but is it possible that it's
running from the inet daemon?  Check your /etc/inetd.conf to see if it added
itself somewhere in there.

-Adam

Adam Stanley
Pinnacle Online Technical Support
(757) 455-5959 ext. 621

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick" <marouf at earlham.edu>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: annoying lockfile - help


> Ok  this is strange... I am using
> mrtg-2.8.12-2.i386.rpm, and the config file that I make with cfgmaker and
customise does not
> have RunAsDeamon,
> but  mrtg is running without me even putting it in the crontab.
>
> it is working fine now, but does anyone have any ideas, why/how this would
happen. I also see no
> proccess for mrtg if it was running as a daemon.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
> Nick
>
> Nick wrote:
>
> > A bit more detail would help as well.
> > It is running in cron on a RH 6.2 as following:
> >
> > [root at nobu /root]# crontab -l
> > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> > # (/tmp/crontab.1169 installed on Thu Jun  1 10:16:03 2000)
> > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
$)
> > 00 03 * * * /root/backup/backup.pl
> > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/mrtg
/home/httpd/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
> >
> > still stuck with that annoying problem.
> >
>
>
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