> I've so far been putting an instance of MRTG into /etc/crontab > after the fashion of: > 0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch1.cfg > 2-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch2.cfg > 3-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch3.cfg > 4-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch4.cfg > 5-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch5.cfg > 0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch1.cfg > > I've heard that this does not scale well-
Tim -- Speaking from experience, this is a disaster to scale. I do this by daemonizing MRTG. Once you've generated your config file, add the following lines to the global options section, where WorkDir and all that are. RunAsDaemon: Yes Interval: 5 If you use separate config files for each device (legal - this is what I do), you'll need to add that to every file. Then, run the MRTG command just once, and it'll keep running itself as a sleeping process. You will need to make sure these processes get started on bootup -- I made a file under my equivalent of rc.local called mrtg.sh that just runs all the commands. Andi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
