[mrtg] Re: error running external script

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:55:21PM +0200, Koenraad Vanhoutte wrote:

> Can't fork to start '/etc/mrtg/latency-adslgw-minmax.pl 217.136.254.225 5':
> Permission denied

Permission denied could mean:

1) no permission at all for that file
2) no execute permission for that file
3) no permission for the interpreter
4) interpreter not found

> Mrtg runs on debian linux 2.2r5.
> The owner and the group of the script are the same as the owner and group of
> mrtg.

That doesn't matter.  What matters is that the user which is running mrtg
has permissions.

Last but not least: you seem to be using ' in stead of `.  However, this is
documented and is in the FAQ IIRC so that's probably not your problem.

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