[mrtg] Re: .ok files

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

MRTG won't complain, but it also wont know when stuff changes - if that's important to you.

What do you care if there are there or not?  To my knowledge, you can't place them in 
a separate directory.  But, as with all programs that you have the source to, you 
can always modify the code to put the .ok files someplace specific.  Also, if you're 
not up to actually changing the source, you could ask Toby to make that something 
to consider for the next release...

Paul 

>>> "Brander, Eric" <Eric.Brander at ACS-INC.com> 12/09/02 02:11PM >>>

I just delete them after every run.  I've never had MRTG complain that they
weren't there.  Should I not delete them or can MRTG be told to put them
elsewhere?

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson at mandtbank.com] 
Sent:	Monday, December 09, 2002 7:02 AM
To:	doug at dougm.com; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch 
Subject:	[mrtg] Re: .ok files


The .ok files are used as a check to make sure the 
interfaces have not changed since the last poll.  If 
they have changed, this file allows MRTG to know that 
an interface has either been removed or added.  MRTG 
should then send you an e-mail complaining that 
Interface x was a serial, now it's an ethernet or 
something like that.


Paul

>>> "Meyer, Douglas S." <doug at dougm.com> 12/09/02 00:58 AM >>>

Do the .ok files have any use?  Is there a way to make MRTG store them
in a separate directory?  Better yet, to not create these files at all?

Sorry if this is redundant, I already RTFM and the FAQ and didn't see
much information about the .ok files.  So please flame me if this has
already eben made blatantly obvious somewhere.  ;-)

Thanks,
Doug Meyer
Purdue University
http://noc-test3.cc.purdue.edu/stats/ 

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