On Tuesday 06 March 2001 22:44, Dave Plonka wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Paul C. Williamson wrote: > > I am trying to run mrtg/rrd from box 2, but the configs and data live on > > box 1. When I try to run 'box2/mrtg box1/mrtg.cfg', mrtg comes back to > > tell me that rrdtool could not update blah.rrd with the data it retrieved > > because it could not lock the rrd. RRDTool also lives on box 2. I have > > full rights to thisv olume, and can create all kinds of files on this > > volume. What am I missing that's preventing me from locking the blah.rrd > > database? > > Paul, > > While you didn't say that you're using NFS, it sounds as though you are > and that your ability to lock files across NFS is broken. Check the > health of your rpc.lockd and rpc.statd processes - they are responsible > for maintaining file locks on NFS file systems. > > Here's some pertinent posts from a similar discussion we had some time > ago in the FlowScan mailing list: > > http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/0265.html > http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/0266.html > > Dave
Whilst probably not relevant to this precise situation, I have the same problem when accidently trying to write to rrds on a dos partition (fat32) mounted under freebsd -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi