[mrtg] Re: Daemons and Forks

[Stewart Tolhurst]

> One problem I've run into is that when this script restarts mrtg from cron
> it doesn't fork properly.  Even though my config specifies four forks, I
> end up with four mrtg processes and no children forking off one parent.

I think you'll find that MRTG doesn't fork if you run it from cron.  The
fork command only works if "RunAsDaemon: Yes" is in your config script.

What I find is that the child processes seem to die if they aren't required.

Stewart



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