[mrtg] MRTG (Daemon Mode) Crashing

[Henrik Jacobsson]

You have two(or more) mrtg daemons running. Check your running processes.

I had this problem when I was adjusting my mrtg config, each time I had 
to restart the daemon. And each time you run mrtg without just 
restarting it, it will generate duplicate daemons which will screw your 
logfiles as well.

I fixed all my problems with just adding this to my crontab and my 
config saying "RunAsDaemon: No" (or whatever it is in the config):
*/5   *  * * *  root    mrtg /home/henke/mrtg/mrtg.conf

This will make mrtg run every five minutes. And I can change the config 
all the time without the need of restarting the daemon (as far as I 
know). And I dont see why you should run it as a daemon actually...


Hope this helps you.

Israel Brewster skrev:
> I sent this from the wrong account last time, so I'm not sure if it  
> got through. My apologies if this ends up being a duplicate.
> I am running MRTG 2.12.2 in daemon mode with RRD logging on OpenBSD  
> 4.0, and I am experiencing a problem where every so often it randomly  
> crashes and has to be restarted, particularly when one or more of the  
> routers it is monitoring goes down. For the most part I am using only  
> simple configs generated by config maker, and monitoring Linksys and  
> Cisco routers. I have tried compiling and running the latest version  
> as well, but if anything that version was even more crash prone. The  
> mrtg.log file shows the following each time it crashes:
>
> 2007-06-30 16:32:36 -- List::Util object version 1.18 does not match  
> bootstrap parameter 1.19 at /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.8.8/ 
> XSLoader.pm line 94.
> 2007-06-30 16:32:36 -- *** Restarting after 10 seconds in an attempt  
> to recover from the error above
> 2007-06-30 16:32:53 -- Started mrtg with config '/etc/mrtg/main.cfg'
> 2007-06-30 16:32:57 -- ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to  
> be running. Check /var/run/mrtg.pid
>
> This was the same both for the 2.12.2 version, as well as the current  
> latest. Between crashes, which can be anywhere from just a couple of  
> minutes, to couple of days or more, everything works fine. What can I  
> do to fix the error? Thanks.
>
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