hi,

this is more cosmetic than anything else, but it can get annoying :-)

I installed opsview community through the debian repository from opsera.
Great documentation, works out of the box. It installs mrtg for the
graphics, but the default debian package also installs a cron job in
/etc/cron.d/mrtg ; if this job has an error, it mails the admin until the
error gets fixed :-)

The config file of mrtg in debian is /etc/mrtg.cfg and the one in a opsview
installation looks like this:

######################################################################
# Multi Router Traffic Grapher -- Sample Configuration File
######################################################################
# This file is for use with mrtg-2.5.4c

# Global configuration
WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg
WriteExpires: Yes

Title[^]: Traffic Analysis for

# 128K leased line
# ----------------
#Title[leased]: a 128K leased line
#PageTop[leased]: <H1>Our 128K link to the outside world</H1>
#Target[leased]: 1:[email protected]
#MaxBytes[leased]: 16000

the cron job /etc/cron.d/mrtg looks like this:

*/5 *   * * *   root    if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ];
then env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg 2>&1 | tee -a
/var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log ; fi

so basically, every 5 minutes you get an e-mail saying that /var/www/mrtg
does not exist..

Please update your docs reminding the people that install through apt to
remove this cronjob to not get spammed by cron.
-- 
Groeten,
J.Asenjo
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