Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-27 Thread matt .
On 11/26/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:24 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote I don't think it's a bug in the port. I've installed it many times recently and not had any problems. What version of Perl are you using? Version of FreeBSD? It looks as if the FindBin perl module is

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 114, Issue 23 Message: 6 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:25:26 -0500 From: matt . [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/26/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:24 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote I don't think it's a bug in the port. I've installed it many

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-27 Thread matt .
Thanks Ian, I agree it smells very strongly like permissions, but everywhere I look the permissions are ok. /usr/local/bin/rateup is world executable. Note that if I make a symlink to where MRTG (when run as mrtg:mrtg) expects to find 'rateup' (which is in / ) everything will work but I'll get

Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread matt .
Heya folks, I hope this question isn't too MRTG-centric in-so-far-as I should be posting it to the MRTG list (which I have and received no response) My quandry: I don't want MRTG run as root, however creating a crontab in /var/cron for the mrtg user yeilds errors every time it tries to run.

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:33 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: Heya folks, I hope this question isn't too MRTG-centric in-so-far-as I should be posting it to the MRTG list (which I have and received no response) My quandry: I don't want MRTG run as root, however creating a crontab in /var/cron for the mrtg user

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread matt .
On 11/26/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:33 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: 2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- Started mrtg with config '/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' 2005-11-24 17:55:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720.

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread matt .
On 11/26/05, matt . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying this now...I'll letcha now. Thanks! Still seeing the same error. I created /usr/local/www/mrtg owned by mrtg:mrtg. I run the following in mrtg's crontab: */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --debug=cfg,dir

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread matt .
I created a symlink pointing /rateup to /usr/local/bin/rateup. MRTG is now working, however there I see these warnings in the log: 2005-11-26 20:20:00 -- Started mrtg with config '/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' 2005-11-26 20:20:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:24 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: I created a symlink pointing /rateup to /usr/local/bin/rateup. MRTG is now working, however there I see these warnings in the log: 2005-11-26 20:20:00 -- Started mrtg with config '/usr/local/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg' 2005-11-26 20:20:00 -- Use of uninitialized