[mrtg] rateup did not return anything sensible... no kidding??

[Nick Ellson]

I have had to migrate my MRTG install to a new server and I am having one 
serious hard time with what would appear to be rateup?

I store all my graphs/logs in /var/www/mrtg/<routername> so I wholesale 
rsynced that directory structure over.

The old system was Gentoo Linux where I used the portage packages.

The new system is RedHat WKS 4.1 where I am using pure source code 
installs.

I had path issues with perl/mrtg at first, but symbolic links putting the 
/usr/local/mrtg-2/lib & bin into findable locations seems to have solved 
that.

I verified that my ulk discovery scripts that create the individual 
<routername>.cfg files work, and my bulk indexmaker script is sifting 
through them making nice main index pages in my /var/www/mrtg directory.

But when MRTG is run (as user:group mrtg:mrtg, new in redhat where it was 
root:root) it coughs these on everything yet the TIMESTAMP on each devices 
interface index shows new every 5 mins as it should.. It's like it's just 
not actualy graphing. (yup, still using hard graphs, not rrdtool ;)

I am trying to up the logging while I get my sys-admin to install strace 
so I can find something better in my logs than this..

Does this ring any obvious bells or has anyone got suggestions on what I 
might enable for debugging? I tried "log" but I got a much more verbose 
"generic error" :)



inprod5 /etc/mrtg # tail /var/log/mrtg.log_ng
  with Exit Value 1 when doing router '172.21.199.199_2'
  Signal was 0, Returncode was 1
2007-09-06 05:45:27 -- 2007-09-06 05:44:33: ERROR: Skipping webupdates 
because rateup did not return anything sensible
2007-09-06 05:45:27 -- 2007-09-06 05:44:33: WARNING: rateup died from 
Signal 0
  with Exit Value 1 when doing router 'zeus-mgnt_gigabitethernet0_1'
  Signal was 0, Returncode was 1
2007-09-06 05:45:27 -- 2007-09-06 05:44:33: ERROR: Skipping webupdates 
because rateup did not return anything sensible
2007-09-06 05:45:27 -- 2007-09-06 05:44:33: WARNING: rateup died from 
Signal 0
  with Exit Value 1 when doing router 'zeus-mgnt_serial1_0'
  Signal was 0, Returncode was 1


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Nick Ellson
DAD, CCNA, CCIE R&S Written 3.0, CCAI,
MCSE 2000, Security+, Network+
Network Hobbyist, VFR Private Pilot.