[mrtg] Re: Errors from cron

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Simon Bedford wrote:
> I wonder if you can help me, when I run mrtg from cron it sends mail to
> /var/spool/mail/root with the following error message :-
> 
> ERROR: I guess another mrtg is running. A lockfile
> (/usr/local/etc/mrtg.cfg_l) aged
> 0 seconds is hanging around. If you are sure that no other mrtg
> is running you can remove the lockfile

0 seconds --> two processes are started at the same time.

Check if there are two entries in your crontab file(s).  For instance,
you could have an entry in the user-specific crontab (crontab -l) and
in the system crontab (vi /etc/crontab).

You can verify this by checking the log file /var/log/cron

HTH
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