[mrtg] Re: logging

[Christopher Noyes]

This is not an MRTG problem.  Cron sends the output of the jobs it ran to 
the user who owned them (as specified in the MAILTO variable in crontab). 
If you don't want the emails add the following to the end of your cron 
entry:    > /dev/null 2>&1 (example cron entry would look something like: 
*/5 * * * * /etc/mrtg_scripts/mrtg_5_min_update_cron.sh > /dev/null 2>&1)
In my MRTG setup, I am logging to /var/log/mrtg.log and the only things 
that get logged are warnings or errors (such as when a switch, for 
whatever reason, stops responding to snmp queries).  This file is usually 
empty.



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"Andy Lewis" <Alewis at greenfield.com> 
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I added write to the group and other so everything now has read, write
and execute but still nothing. I have MRTG/RRD running under root.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Luiz Maia Motta [mailto:alvaro.motta at necsolutions.com.br]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Andy Lewis; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: RES: [mrtg] logging

Check user's permissions on the /var/log.

HTH

AL

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De: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] Em
nome de Andy Lewis
Enviada em: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:43 PM
Para: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Assunto: [mrtg] logging

Hi all


I seem to have a problem with Logging. I am running MRTG/RRD on Linux
Enterprise 4 and I put the logging statements into my crontab (
--logging /var/log/routers.log)but It wont log. What does happen is that
my mail file (/var/spool/mail/) gets inundated with all of the log files
and gets so big that I can't even open it and I end up having to delete
it. I have successfully run MRTG/RRD for years on Windows but I thought
that it would run better on Linux. So far Windows is 10x faster.



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!





Andy Lewis

Network Engineer

Greenfield Online

Phone: 203-846-5776

Fax: 203-834-8686

EMail: Alewis at Greenfield.com




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