Don Russell wrote:
I just installed mrtg 2.13.2 on FC5 and noticed the sample config file
in /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
This file has LogDir defined as /var/lib/mrtg
I suppose it doesn't really matter... but is that an error/typo?
Shouldn't logs be kept in /var/log/... ?
I was going to Bugzilla this, but thought I'd get some other opinions
first. :-)
Part 2: (The fun part) :-)
I created a new userid (mrtg) and created a little script to run
cfgmaker and indexmaker, but now I don't know how to run mrtg so it
can produce the graphs etc in /var/www/mrtg...
I suppose I could run mrtg as root... but I hate running stuff as root
if not needed.
Or, how can I grant write permission so the mrtg user can write to
/var/www/mrtg, but not other apache-owned files/directories?
Thanks to all who replied.... I decided to simply add mrtg to
/etc/crontab and run it as root for now... I may revisit this later as a
general exercise. :-)
I am going to Bugzilla the placing of the log files in /var/lib
though... In reading mrtg help stuff upstream, there were references to
the log files being in /var/log... I *suspect* the rpm package using
/var/lib for the log files was just a typo.... and because it works, was
never "caught". :-)
Cheers :-)
