On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Adam Williams <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is what I'm getting in emails from cron about mrtg. It says rateup > can't rename log files. Which is strange, mrtg is being ran as root in > cron, so there should be no problems with file permissions, and there's > plenty of free disk space from my last email (18% free). Any ideas? > > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:40:07 -0500 (CDT) > From: Cron Daemon <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Cron <r...@missioncontrol> env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg > /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --logging /var/log/mrtg.log > > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the > primary log file for localhost_68.209.223.242 > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove > localhost_68.209.223.242.old updating log file > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename > localhost_68.209.223.242.tmp to localhost_68.209.223.242.log updating log > file > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the > primary log file for localhost_10.1.3.1 > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename > localhost_10.1.3.1.log to localhost_10.1.3.1.old updating log file > 2009-06-05 08:40:07, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename > localhost_10.1.3.1.tmp to localhost_10.1.3.1.log updating log file > > and all that /var/log/mrtg.log contains are entries like this: > > 2009-06-05 08:40:06 -- Started mrtg with config '/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' > > It can't rename them because they probably don't exist - something has likely deleted them.
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