[mrtg] Re: Problems with customized perl scripts in MRTG

[Larry Sheldon]

> I am sure of it now.... when MRTG is started by the cron, then the perl scripts are giving zeros. Why o why???
> As user root it is ok.... as the cron does is as user root it is NOT OK!!!
> 
> Help?? 

SROT (Sheldon's Rules of Thumb) (First rule, move thumb before swinging hammer
at nail) say in this situation  (where things "work" at the command line
and "don't work" from "cron) the problem is almost certainly due to a
failure to account for the fact that "cron" has practically no "environment"
and in particular, practically no path.

If you depend on something being set some way in particular, set it that
way in in your cron-run script.  Keep in mind that calling another
script (like /etc/profile) will probably not have the desired effect unless
you use the construct:

. /etc/profile

or in some other way make it run in the main cron-run shell.
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