[mrtg] Re: Memo: RE: How do I stop/start MRTG in Daemon mode?

[Miller, Robert]

Start the task manager, processes tab, find and select 'perl', kill perl,
restart mrtg. I would sugest running mrtg from 'scheduled tasks'. This will
allow you to make changes to your cfg file and see the changes the very next
time mrtg runs. Although doing this will cause pop-up windows, I find this an
acceptable price for the flexibility you gain.

HTH,
Robert Miller
MCFA

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny A THOMPSON [mailto:danny.a.thompson at hsbc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:59 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Memo: RE: How do I stop/start MRTG in Daemon mode?





Thanks for that.  However, I already run MRTG from an  NT Service
using the sugested "Miroslaw M. Maczkas mrtg NT service package. You
can find it in c:\mrtg-2.9.4\contrib\nt-services " - but the problem
is not that I cannot stop the service (stopping the service does not
stop the MRTG Daemon) - the problem is how to stop the Daemon which is
created by the "RunAsDaemon: yes" parameter in the mrtg.cfg file.

Once MRTG loads as a Daemon it never again reads the mrtg.cfg file -
and if changes are made to mrtg.cfg they will not be read until MRTG
is restarted - but as it is a Daemon it means the machine has to be
restarted (at least until we can find out if the Daemon runs as an NT
Task (I did find 5mrtg.exe running in Task Manager)).

I read the documentation for Firedaemon and it also suggests setting
the "RunAsDaemon: yes" parameter which will put me back in the same
place :-)    It is the Daemon process that is the problem - how to
bounce it!

Regards






29/11/2000 16:21



To:   Danny A THOMPSON/HBEU/HSBC at HSBC
      mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
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From: Nasreddine Tabet-Aoul <Nasreddine.Tabet-Aoul at madgeweb.com>
Subject:  RE: [mrtg] How do I stop/start MRTG in Daemon mode?




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Try to use the firedeamon software that allows you to run your MRTG as
a
service. You can find the details from the MRTG running under NT. The
installation is very simple and selfexplanotary.



-----Original Message-----
From: Danny A THOMPSON [mailto:danny.a.thompson at hsbc.com]
Sent: 29 November 2000 16:04
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Memo: How do I stop/start MRTG in Daemon mode?





I have installed MRTG for NT and am running it in Daemon mode
(RunAsDaemon = Yes).  My question is how do I make it re-read the
configuration file after making changes without rebooting the PC?   I
have RTFM'd but no information is found.

Has anyone else (using NT) found a solution to this problem?



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