[mrtg] Re: Dieing Daemons

Jim Mozley jim.mozley at exponential-e.com
Thu Nov 6 13:14:16 MET 2003


Gaurang Pandya wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running many MRTG daemons (1 per device) in my
> FreeBSD box. But frequently few of daemons jsut dies
> with following errors in log file.
> 
> ERROR: Cannot update
> /home/mrtg/data/mrtg-dev1/mrtg_dev1_fa0_1.rrd with
> '1067932250:2979734137:937313356' illegal attempt to
> update using time 1067932250 when last update time is
> 1067932250 (minimum one second step)
> 
> Can any one help me out with this and also tell me how
> to interpret those time stamps that is specified in
> that error. 

The time stamp is epoch time. It looks like RRD is complaining because a 
sample that's being input into the db has the same epoch time as the 
previous sample. I don't know what's causing this though.

I have a setting of 5 MRTG processes being spawned and monitor more than 
5 servers.

Jim


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