[Dxspider-support] Mrtg revisited

[Bob Nielsen]

I figured out the problem here.  The Debian package for mrtg had it's
own mrtg.cfg file, which had all entries commented out, as well as a
cron job in /etc/cron.d.  I copied the config file from /spider/mrtg to
/etc and all is working fine now.  Since no WCY data are received, I
deleted that portion of the page.

73,
Bob, N7XY

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:04:40PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Got it.  Actually there were a few other png files which I think are
> the ones I need.  They were install in /var/www/mtrg.  I moved them to
> /spider/html/mtrg and did 'ln -s /spider/html/mtrg /var/www/mtrg'.  The
> spider/mtrg/mtrg.cfg got created and hfspots, totalspots, totalusers,
> users, wcyka, wwvka and wwvsfi get generated in /spider/mrtg/ each time
> crontab runs "local_cmd('mrtg all').
> 
> So far so good, but the corresponding .html files do not get created in
> /spider/html/mrtg/ (stats.html did get created, however).  Therefore,
> although the page exists, there are no graphs shown, just the headings
> for each of the missing graphs.  /spider/mtrg/mtrg.cfg shows 
> 
> Htmldir: /spider/html/mrtg
> Imagedir: /spider/html/mrtg
> 
> /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log was created, but is empty.  It is owned by root. 
> Does it need to be owned by sysop in order for it to be written to?
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:21:47PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > I actually copied the whole lot, but you only actually need the .png and
> > .gif files.
> > 
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:57:33 -0700
> > Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > This MRTG stuff sounds interesting, but I have no prior experience
> > > with it and am a bit confused about how to get it going.
> > > I see from /spider/Changes the following:
> > > 
> > > 1. added mrtg stuff to the system as a template. In order to use this
> > > you must install mrtg onto your system and copy all the mrtg files (or
> > > at least all the images) to new directory /spider/html/mrtg. The
> > > system generates the config file for you as part of its workings. To
> > > get it to update add a line to your spider crontab like:
> > > 
> > > I have mrtg (Debian package) installed.  
> > > 
> > > The only html stuff installed is in the documentation directory:
> > > 
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/logfile.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/unix-guide.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/faq.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/squid.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/index.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mibhelp.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-ti.gif
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtglib.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/cfgmaker.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/nt-guide.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/webserver.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/reference.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/indexmaker.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-l.png
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-m.png
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-r.gif
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-r.png
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/mrtg-rrd.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/contrib.html
> > > /usr/share/doc/mrtg/html/forum.html
> > > 
> > > Are these the files I need to copy to /spider/html/mrtg or are there
> > > some other files which I am missing?  
> > > 
> > > 73, Bob N7XY
> > > 
> > > 
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> Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy at n7xy.net
> Bainbridge Island, WA  
> IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S 
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy at n7xy.net
Bainbridge Island, WA  
IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S