Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:14:39 -0500 From: "matt ." <fasterdisco@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD Message-ID: <a97e11c20511261614r4a85d5e6l87550ad28d6a5243@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051126154801.023a3ac0@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <a97e11c20511261533i7f48d1fk4c5a9b46ea575f5@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.3.4.2.20051126154801.023a3ac0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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On 11/26/05, Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> wrote: > > At 03:33 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: > > > > >2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- Started mrtg with config > >'/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' > >2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) o= r > >string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720. > >2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) o= r > >string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720. > >2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- ERROR: Can't Execute '/rateup' > > The line above indicates your problem. mrtg is looking for rateup in > / instead of /usr/local/bin which is where it would normally be. This is curious to me, since when run as root it works. Why would it know rateup was in /usr/local/bin as root but not as mrtg? Did you install mrtg from ports? Yes I did. You might want to try running mrtg with --debug=3Dcfg,dir and see if > that gives an indication of why it can't find the rateup binary. Trying this now...I'll letcha now. Thanks! -Glenn > > > >If I run the same cron job as root, it works just dandy. Even O'Reilly'= s > >"Essential SNMP" states it's not necessary to run mrtg as root: > > > >Quote from section 13.1: > > > >"The next step is to make sure MRTG runs every five minutes. There's no > need > >for MRTG to be run by root; any user will do. Add a line like the > following > >to the *crontab* entry for the appropriate user." > > > >I've experienced this problem on 4.11 and 6.0. I have seen it working o= n > >another 4.11 box, however I can't figure out how they did it :-/ > > > >Is there perhaps something FreeBSD-specific I'm overlooking? thanks! > > > >kind regards, > > > >matt > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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