[mrtg] MRTG resets all graphs daily, why?

[Eric Brander]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Adam Williams <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us>wrote:

> This is what I'm getting in emails from cron about mrtg.  It says rateup
> can't rename log files.  Which is strange, mrtg is being ran as root in
> cron, so there should be no problems with file permissions, and there's
> plenty of free disk space from my last email (18% free).  Any ideas?
>
> Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 08:40:07 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Cron Daemon <root at missioncontrol.squeezer.net>
> To: root at missioncontrol.squeezer.net
> Subject: Cron <root at missioncontrol> env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg
>    /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --logging /var/log/mrtg.log
>
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the
> primary log file for localhost_68.209.223.242
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove
> localhost_68.209.223.242.old updating log file
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename
> localhost_68.209.223.242.tmp to localhost_68.209.223.242.log updating log
> file
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the
> primary log file for localhost_10.1.3.1
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename
> localhost_10.1.3.1.log to localhost_10.1.3.1.old updating log file
> 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename
> localhost_10.1.3.1.tmp to localhost_10.1.3.1.log updating log file
>
> and all that /var/log/mrtg.log contains are entries like this:
>
> 2009-06-05 08:40:06 -- Started mrtg with config '/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg'
>
> It can't rename them because they probably don't exist - something has
likely deleted them.
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