[mrtg] Inappropriate I/O control operation

[Daniel McDonald]

On 5/14/12 9:01 AM, "Petr Lázňovský" <lazna at volny.cz> wrote:

> Monitoring data via external script. Work OK if started from cmdline, but
> produce errormessage if run as service.
> Have many other mrtg monitoring via external scripts and run as service, but
> those work OK.
> 
> W2k3, Perl 5.10.1, MRTG 2.16.2
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> L. 
> 
> 2012-05-14 14:07:55 -- 2012-05-14 14:07:53: WARNING: Could not get any data
> from external command 'C:\scripts\active_scripts\signatures_count.cmd'
> Maybe the external command did not even start. (Inappropriate I/O control
> operation)
>

Looks like some sort of permissions error - the user running mrtg in batch
mode doesn't have access to run something in your script.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281