Running mrtg on FreeBSD

[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 /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720.
2005-11-26 20:20:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 744.

So, in summary so far, if I run the cron job as root, it works nicely with
no complaints.

If I run it out of the box as mrtg (meaning after installing from ports and
not makeing any funky symlinks for "rateup") it complains it can't fine
'/rateup', which makes sense because it's not there.  If I add the symlink,
the cron job will run but with the above complaints.

Is there possibly a bug in the latest MRTG port?

matt


On 11/26/05, matt . <fasterdisco at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/26/05, matt . <fasterdisco at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Trying this now...I'll letcha now.  Thanks!
> >
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> 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 --logging /var/log/mrtg.log
>
> And I see the debug check the config and dir structures ok:
>
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- --dir: ensure path IN:  '/usr/local/www/mrtg'
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- --dir: ensure path OUT: '/usr/local/www/mrtg/'
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- --dir: imagehtml =
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
> string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720.
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
> string at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 720.
> 2005-11-26 19:58:00 -- ERROR: Can't Execute '/rateup'
>
> Still trying to execute /rateup.  This works flawlessly when run by root.
> I don't get it.
>
> Here is line 720 of /usr/local/bin/mrtg:
>
> ((($MRTG_lib::OS eq 'NT' or $MRTG_lib::OS eq 'OS2') and (-e
> "${FindBin::Bin}${MRTG_lib::SL}rateup.exe")) or
>      (($MRTG_lib::OS eq 'NW') and (-e "SYS:/Mrtg/bin/rateup.nlm")) or
>      (-x "${FindBin::Bin}${MRTG_lib::SL}rateup")) or
>        die "ERROR: Can't Execute
> '${FindBin::Bin}${MRTG_lib::SL}rateup'\n";
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> matt
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