All, Thanks for all of the great tips on this. I really do appreciate everyone's time and effort.
Lee Crow Sr. LAN/WAN Administrator ITT Systems Division --------------------------- Cell: +974-556-3127 DSN: 318-471-2074 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Shaffner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:12 PM To: Corey Smith Cc: Crow Lee Contr 379 ECS; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mrtg] Re: MRTG on FreeBSD On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 09:19 America/Chicago, Corey Smith wrote: > I run MRTG as a normal user as it does not require special privileges > to > run. > > FreeBSD Mini-HOWTO! > FreeBSD Mini-Mini-HOWTO: pw useradd mrtg -m > At this point I make a directory structure like: > > /home/mrtg/configs # <-- this is where your configs go > /home/mrtg/data # <-- this is where your rrds/logs go > /home/mrtg/htdocs # <-- this is part of your web space > > Let me know if you have any questions or concerns! > His primary question was how to run it. Crow, You create a cronjob for the mrtg user that runs the mrtg command every 5 minutes. This in particular is documented in the installation guide. -Jeremy -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
