[nycbug-talk] MRTG Question

[Bjorn Nelson]

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

Are you running as mrtg in cron?

-Bjorn