[mrtg] mrtg/rateup logfile corruption problems

[paul beard]

I seem to be having a recurrence of this logfile corruption 
problem. I have made no changes to the configuration since last 
night but just now, I started getting notifications that the 
logfile is suddenly corrupt.

here's the Target line:

Target[red-root]:`/usr/local/bin/snmpget -m all -Oqv red public 
host.hrStorage.hrStorageTable.hrStorageEntry.hrStorageSize.1 
host.hrStorage.hrStorageTable.hrStorageEntry.hrStorageUsed.1`&`perl 
-e 'print time();'`&"red-root"

the last two values are to comply with the requirement that 4 
values be returned: recall that passing the output of any uptime 
value would cause an immediate logfile corruption.

here are the values returned by the snmpget request:

[/usr/local/etc/mrtg]# /usr/local/bin/snmpget -m all -Oqv red 
public 
host.hrStorage.hrStorageTable.hrStorageEntry.hrStorageSize.1 
host.hrStorage.hrStorageTable.hrStorageEntry.hrStorageUsed.1
99183
42891

and here's the logfile:

1012843501 0   0  !
1012843501 99183 99183 99183 99183
1012842902 99183 99183 99183 99183
1012842900 99183 99183 99183 99183

first of all, why are the two values not being logged at all? and 
why the sudden corruption problem if nothing has changed?

I'm starting to lose faith in MRTG and SNMP for all the simplest 
(ie, traffic) queries.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cron <root at red> (for i in red purple blue pink test; do 
/usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/etc/mrtg/$i.cfg; done)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:25:02 -0800 (PST)
From: root at red.paulbeard.org (Cron Daemon)
To: root at red.paulbeard.org

Rateup ERROR: /usr/local/bin/rateup found red-root's log file was 
corrupt
           or not in sorted order:
time: 1012843201.Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup could not 
read the primary log file for red-root



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