[mrtg] How to Daemonize

[Christopher Noyes]

Actually, I've seen the same behaviour when trying to run MRTG as a 
daemon.  It appears to run but the RRD files are not updated.  And it 
isn't a permissions issue; the daemon is running with the same permissions 
as when I run MRTG as a cron job.  The minute I switch back to cron the 
RRD files start to get updated.  I don't know if this makes a difference 
(I wouldn't think it would) but I am running Solaris 8 x86.  Really 
strange.

-CN


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Steve Shipway <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz> 
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08/28/2008 08:24 PM

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Re: [mrtg] How to Daemonize





> Just tried but the rrd files remain (all) untouched....
> until now the only way is the crontab....
>
> Here follow the "master file":
> routers.cgi*Ignore: yes
> Forks: 10
> RunAsDaemon: Yes
> Interval: 1
> Include: /etc/mrtg/file1.cfg
> Include: /etc/mrtg/file2.cfg
> ...

If the RRD files are not being updated, then check permissions on them 
(make sure they are writeable to the user the MRTG runs as) and check for 
error output from the MRTG command.  Run it interactively as the 
appropriate user or make sure it redirects the stderr and stdout output 
into a file for viewing; maybe there is a helpful error message in there. 
No RRD updates means MRTG is not running correctly.

Steve

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