Hi I have been running mrtg for many years on many different Linux boxes and have always had no problem with it. But now I am in desperate need of assistance.
I am running Fedora 12 and installed mrtg from the Fedora repository: mrtg-2.16.2-4.fc12.x86_64 I am only monitoring ONE device and have set the following entry in root's crontab file: */5 * * * * env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg There are a number of interfaces being monitored on the device. The CFG file was configured with cfgmaker. THE PROBLEM: Every few hours the logfile entries are reset to ZEROS through out the file, a few hours into the log file. It is apparently random, in that if I look at the graphs they all cut off at different times over the last 24 hours. So the graphs have only a few hours on each of them before flattening to zero. The log of each process is mailed to root. They have varying entries looking like this: 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_4.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_5.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_9.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_14 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_14.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_15.tmp to 196.211.186.105_15.log updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_16 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_16.log to 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup could not read the primary log file for 196.211.186.105_17 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_17.old updating log file 2010-04-23 20:30:01, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't rename 196.211.186.105_17.tmp to 196.211.186.105_17.log updating log file Unforunately EVERY poll has some of these errors, and they are not necessarily always the same sub-interfaces giving the errors. Then I found a disturbing entry reading as follows: 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_5.old updating log file 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_9.old updating log file 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_10.old updating log file 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_12.old updating log file 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_15.old updating log file 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_16.old updating log file Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. 2010-04-23 19:40:02, Rateup WARNING: /usr/bin/rateup Can't remove 196.211.186.105_17.old updating log file Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1401. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1410. There is PLENTY of disk space, and the box is not at all busy. Any ideas?? MANY thanks, Louis van Dyk
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