mrtg problem

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:58:12PM +0100, Carlos Silva wrote:
> hi again,
> 
> i have troubles with MRTG, a strange error that never happened to me.
> 
> output
> 
> osiris# /etc/rc.d/mrtg_daemon start
> Starting mrtg_daemon.
> Daemonizing MRTG ...
> osiris# /bin/rateup: Permission denied
> Rateup ERROR: Can't open 192.168.1.1_1.tmp for write
> ERROR: Skipping webupdates because rateup did not return anything sensible
> WARNING: rateup died from Signal 0
> with Exit Value 1 when doing router '192.168.1.1_1'
> Signal was 0, Returncode was 1
> /bin/rateup: Permission denied
> Rateup ERROR: Can't open 192.168.1.1_4.tmp for write
> ERROR: Skipping webupdates because rateup did not return anything sensible
> WARNING: rateup died from Signal 0
> with Exit Value 1 when doing router '192.168.1.1_4'
> Signal was 0, Returncode was 1
> 
> someone has an error like that? ideas?

Do you install all of your ports with PREFIX=/ or something?  My
mrtg installation has rateup in /usr/local/bin, and mrtg_daemon.sh
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

Possibly some portion of the port isn't respecting a non-default
PREFIX?

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