HOWTO: Compile, configure and run MRTG

I guess I should not have a MAILTO entry in that user crontab, right? Otherwise I'll get emails every five minutes.
 
I find it usefull to pipe all output to /dev/null so nothing is outputted, an no emails are sent:

/some/cron/command 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

This will send all data on stdout (1) and stderr (2) to a blackhole. Or you could just disable sending emails completely :)

John
 
Quick install for RH9

# cd /home/groovy

# wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub/mrtg.tar.gz

# tar -zxvf mrtg.tar.gz

# cd mrtg*

# ./configure --with-gd=/usr/local/lib

# make

# make install

----------------

# cd /var/www/html/mrtg

# wget http://www.l0rdphi1.com/junk/mrtg.tgz

# tar -zxvf mrtg.tgz

# chmod 755 system

# /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /var/www/html/mrtg/mrtg.cfg


This will give you the graphs of the rpm version, but with the latest MRTG.

The major change from the original howto is the added configuration switch.
 
Re: Quick install for RH9

interfasys said:
# cd /var/www/html/mrtg

# wget http://www.l0rdphi1.com/junk/mrtg.tgz

# tar -zxvf mrtg.tgz

# chmod 755 system

# /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /var/www/html/mrtg/mrtg.cfg


This will give you the graphs of the rpm version, but with the latest MRTG.

The major change from the original howto is the added configuration switch.
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that way you have your cfg open to all users, probably not the worst thing you could do but do you really want your cfg publically accessable?

i always have my cfg in the mrtg directory and set the WorkDir value to /var/www/html/mrtg :)

will update the main thread also

Chris
 
You're right, it might be a better idea to keep the cfg file elsewhere ;) but I don't really care if someone wants to get my cfg file, unless this represents a security risk.
 
i find i pretty much always have to add 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null to a crontab or i have at least 1000 emails every time i check the mail email account :D
 
set your cron email address to an address that is set to forward all mail into the blackhole :)

Chris
 
Re: HELP

XenoHosting said:
Where do i put LANG="en_US" at im lost
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# pico -w /etc/sysconfig/i18n

You need to modify the 'LANG' line there the show the above suggestion.

Chris
 
Re: Re: HELP

ProWebUK said:
# pico -w /etc/sysconfig/i18n

You need to modify the 'LANG' line there the show the above suggestion.

Chris
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LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

like that ?
 
Re: Re: Re: HELP

You only need the 1 en_US in supported, apart from that it looks fine :)

SUPPORTED="en_US:en"

Chris
 
Re: Re: Re: Re: HELP

ProWebUK said:
You only need the 1 en_US in supported, apart from that it looks fine :)

SUPPORTED="en_US:en"

Chris
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chris i still get the same error


UW PICO(tm) 4.2 File: /etc/sysconfig/i18n

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
 
Could you paste the exact error your getting when starting mrtg...

Chris
 
ProWebUK said:
Could you paste the exact error your getting when starting mrtg...

Chris
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ERROR: Mrtg will most likely not work propperly when the environment
variable LANG is set to UTF-8. Please run mrtg in an environment
where this is not the case:

env LANG=C /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg ...
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Adding LANG=C to /etc/sysconfig/i18n may work..

Ive done a search on the mailing list and that seems to be the only fix.

Chris
 
can't you type (in shell):
Code: 
export LANG=C
then simply re-run whatever command you tried? I think that's what I did.
 
l0rdphi1 said:
can't you type (in shell):
Code: 
export LANG=C
then simply re-run whatever command you tried? I think that's what I did.
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thank you i got it werking but i get theses error now


root@web1 mrtg]# /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /home/xenosite/domains/xeno-hosting.net/public_html/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
ERROR: Target[index][_IN_] ''/home/xenosite/domains/xeno-hosting.net/public_html/mrtg`' (kill): Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at (eval 6) line 1.
ERROR: Target[index][_OUT_] ''/home/xenosite/domains/xeno-hosting.net/public_html/mrtg`' (kill): Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at (eval 7) line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg line 371.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg line 375.
 
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