[nycbug-talk] MRTG Question

[Okan Demirmen]

On Mon 2006.05.15 at 17:37 -0400, Kevin Reiter wrote:
> All,
> 
> After finding the time to finally get MRTG up and running on
> 6.0-RELEASE, I'm seeing a lot of this every few minutes:
> 
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't remove cerberus_1.old
> updating log file
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't rename cerberus_1.log to
> cerberus_1.old updating log file
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't rename cerberus_1.tmp to
> cerberus_1.log updating log file
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't remove cerberus_2.old
> updating log file
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't rename cerberus_2.log to
> cerberus_2.old updating log file
> Rateup WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rateup Can't rename cerberus_2.tmp to
> cerberus_2.log updating log file
> 
> I've read in the docs that this is normal the first few times MRTG is
> started, but it's been restarted/stopped about a dozen times now over
> the past few hours.  I've also checked all the permissions on all the
> files to make sure they're owned by mrtg:mrtg
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?

you've checked the files, what about the dir itself?