On 3 Jan 2017, at 15:17, Nick Price wrote:
I use contrab because the output of every device is sent to a
different folder, so that the owner of that device is the only person
(except mrtgadmin) that can view it.
I guess you're specifying the folder in the MRTG configuration file.
If so, you can continue to do this in the same way.
Do you use a single configuration file, or a separate one for each
device,
or some other approach?
I have never set up mrtg as a daemon and not sure how to achieve the
same results as with crontab.
It's explained in the section headed "RunAsDaemon" in the
configuration reference
(http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-reference.en.html). The
'Target' sections
can remain unchanged.
What has changes in the later version of perl that wasn't in fedora 22
where I didn't have this problem
I can't be sure, as I'm not currently running any OS from the RedHat
family
(RHEL, CentOS, Fedora). I have only Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD. I
suspect
that a Perl module has been installed in two places and references to
both
are somehow (either explicitly or implicitly) being made by MRTG.
This can
come about through an accidental interaction between your approach to
managing
the packages involved and the release-engineering practice of the
package
and distribution developers. Unfortunately, there is a risk of such
an
interaction at any version transition; I'm not sure it's useful to
ask what
has changed at this particular milestone.
Any help setting it up to run as a daemon or a cure for the error
would help please.
If you have just one configuration file and a corresponding single
crontab
entry, the transition to daemon mode is fairly simple. You just need
to
obtain and install a starter script and follow the instructions for
"RunAsDaemon".
I'm not a Linux expert nor do I write perl, I just install and use
I understand. 8-)
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly
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