I've been trying for a couple of weeks to get MRTG running as a windows service on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 system. I have everything working fine from a command line, but when I follow the directions in the mrtg-nt-guide for setting up MRTG as a Windows Service, I get the following error in my event log/log file.
2007-11-27 17:51:46: WARNING: rateup (c:/mrtg/bin\rateup c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mrtg\ 172.22.1.100_1_intutil 1196207506 -Z u 2432434164 899369131 1536000 c #C00000 #00C000 #0000FF #FF00FF -a k 1000 i c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mrtg\172.22.1.100_1_intutil-day.png -1536000 -1536000 400 100 1 1 1 300 0 4 1 "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" 0 i c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mrtg\172.22.1.100_1_intutil-week.png -1536000 -1536000 400 100 1 1 1 1800 0 4 1 "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" 0) did not work: Bad file descriptor. This error occurs once for each interface I am monitoring. I've searched the mailing list archives. The only suggestion was to make sure filenames and paths with spaces were quoted. I do not have any spaces in file/pathnames. Looking at the error, it looks like there's an extra space between the WorkDir and interface name at the beginning of the command line. I've enclosed my WorkDir in quotes and changes \ to /. When it's in quotes, MRTG dies complaining that the directory does not exist. Forward vs backslashes makes no difference. I am using MRTG 2.15.2 and Perl 5.8.8. Following is a partial copy of my config file, all the other interfaces are configured in a similar manner. Thank you, Matthew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ###################################################################### # Multi Router Traffic Grapher -- Configuration File ###################################################################### # Generated by Claridion's GUI on Nov 7, 2007 - 17:15 ###################################################################### # General Configuration ######################################### ###################################################################### WorkDir: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mrtg Refresh: 300 Interval: 5 RunAsDaemon: yes ###################################################### # Utilisation report for Chicago MPLS Total ###################################################### # Interface No. : 1 # Interface Index : 1 Target[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: ifInOctets.1&ifOutOctets.1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Options[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: growright, integer, noarrow #WithPeak[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: #UnScaled[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: #Suppress[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: MaxBytes[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: 1536000 LegendI[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: In LegendO[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: Out Title[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: Utilisation report for Chicago MPLS Total Colours[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: BLUE#C00000,GREEN#00C000,RED#0000FF,MAGENTA#FF00FF Background[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: #FFFFFF PageTop[172.16.1.100_1_IntUtil]: <font face='Arial' size=3><B>Traffic Analysis for MISEPKOI01</b> <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Link Description : Chicago MPLS Total <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Device : 172.16.1.100, Interface : 1 <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Max Speed : 192.0kBytes/s <br><font face='Arial' size=2>System Location : Elk Grove Village, IL <br> </p> ###################################################### # Utilisation report for Chicago MPLS Voice VLAN ###################################################### # Interface No. : 5 # Interface Index : 5 Target[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: ifInOctets.5&ifOutOctets.5:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Options[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: growright, integer, noarrow #WithPeak[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: #UnScaled[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: #Suppress[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: MaxBytes[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: 100000000 LegendI[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: In LegendO[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: Out Title[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: Utilisation report for Chicago MPLS Voice VLAN Colours[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: BLUE#C00000,GREEN#00C000,RED#0000FF,MAGENTA#FF00FF Background[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: #FFFFFF PageTop[172.16.1.100_5_IntUtil]: <font face='Arial' size=3><B>Traffic Analysis for MISEPKOI01</b> <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Link Description : Chicago MPLS Voice VLAN <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Device : 172.16.1.100, Interface : 5 <br><font face='Arial' size=2>Max Speed : 192.0kBytes/s <br><font face='Arial' size=2>System Location : Elk Grove Village, IL <br> </p> -- Matthew Jachimstal Epko Industries, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (224) 366-5020 Fax: (224) 366-5120 _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
