[mrtg] Re: No Log File Creation/Updating: File Permissions on Wo rkDir?

[Lingegowda, Nagesh (Consultant)]

Mike,

If it is working manually, then it should work for the crontab also.
In the crontab ,make sure that absolute path is given to all the commands.
like for /opt/OV/bin/perl /usr/local/src/mrtg---/ovmrtg/mrtg    mrtg1.cfg

you can also look at the cron log to find out what is going wrong while
executing the crontab

Thanks and Regards
Nagesh H L
401-392-7116

When I run mrtg manually, or through crontab ($ mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg),
as root, there are no log files or .png files being updated.  The
permissions on my WorkDir are 755, owned by root.root.

I briefly changed the permissions on this directory to 757, ran mrtg
manually, and began to get log files and .png files being created/updated.
This leads me to believe that there is some sort of file permissions
problem - but I don't know what it is.  I am guessing that mrtg does not
run as root, but can't figure out what user it does run as.

Any ideas?

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