>I'm having the same problem with mrtg 2.15.1 on Fedora 7 and posted about it >on 10/30/2007. One person responded that it may be a file locking problem >(two copies of mrtg running at the same time), but that doesn't appear to be >the problem I'm having. Also, I noticed that my logfile goes missing on >regular occasions and only the .old file remains.
I finally got to the bottom of this problem; and it was a "file locking" issue after all (sort of). When I used yum to install mrtg on Fedora, I didn't realize it put a crontab entry into /etc/cron.d/mrtg (this entry won't show up if you run 'crontab -l'). I then manually added the same "*/5" entry in /etc/crontab. So every five minutes the same cronjob was getting run from two different locations and eventually the file locking would fail and the mrtg-logfile gets cleared. _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
