[nycbug-talk] MRTG Question

[Kevin Reiter]

Bjorn Nelson wrote:
> Kevin,
> 
> On May 15, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Kevin Reiter wrote:
> 
>> Okan Demirmen wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> yup..  owned by mrtg:mrtg

Found the problem.  I had made changes to the /usr/local/www/data/ 
directory so I could modify a few files in another directory and forgot 
to change the perms back.  The directory wasn't owned by mrtg, which was 
causing the error notifications.  Once I changed it back, they went 
away.  Thanks for the tips.

Kev