[mrtg] ERROR: Line 8 in CFG file does not make sense-INDEXMAKER

Henrik Jacobsson henke.jacobsson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 19:27:09 CEST 2007


I got the same issue when I used indexmaker...

Look at the bottom of your config, there's guaranteed a WorkDir: 
statement there =)

//henke

Harry John skrev:
>
>     Hello everybody,
>      
>     I've just installed MRTG on a centos 4.5 and it just gave me the
>     local output on http://localhost/mrtg
>      
>      Now to add a swich to view it statisctics, i did
>     /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker communityname at router1
>     >/var/www/html/mrtg/core/switch1.cfg
>     and it succesfully created a .cfg
>
>     i edited my router1.cfg workdirectory as /var/www/html/switches
>     To create a page I did Indexmaker like :
>     /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/indexmaker
>     /var/www/html/mrtg/switchswitch1.html>
>     /var/www/html/mrtg/core/switch1.cfg
>
>     and it gives : ERROR: Line 8 ( WorkDir: /var/www/html/mrtg) in CFG
>     file (/var/www/html/mrtg/core/switch1.cfg) does not make sense
>
>     I tried doing workdirectory as /var/www/html/mrtg/switch aslo and
>     several other options but does'nt seem to work well.
>      
>      
>     now i copied some stuff from mrtg.cfg to like runas daemon , HTML
>     formating stuff, Stat and then I was able to generate switch1.html
>     i ran
>     env LANG=C /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg
>     /var/www/html/mrtg/core/switch1.cfg
>     and was able to get the results.
>      
>     but do i need to copy these fields (HTML formating stuff, Stat...)
>      each time i add a new machine to view the services?
>     where  have i gone wrong?
>      
>     Thanks in advance
>     Harris
>
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