Tracking the wild mailscanner stats

[Furnish, Trever G]

Probably not the correct owner/group.  I haven't yet tried the actual
package you're dealing with, but if mrtg is being kicked off by a crontab
entry, which user is that?  If it's not root, these these ownerships are
probably wrong.

If mrtg is running as a daemon, then ps ax | grep mrtg to see what user it
runs as.  If it's running as a daemon, you may also have to restart it for
config changes to take effect.

Last idea: you said once you put in the paths, it "didn't work" but you
didn't say whether the error had changed at all.  Is it still exactly:
Rateup Error: Can't open mrtg/images/mesgs/mesgs-day.png for write

...or did the path change when you changed your paths.

HTH,
Trever

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Bowman [mailto:mbowman at UDCOM.COM]
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Tracking the wild mailscanner stats
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> Yes I have them with the correct permissions. root/root is
> the owner/group
> of all the files - not sure if that is the correct user/group or not.
>
> Matthew
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> "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK>
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> 08/18/2003 11:17 AM
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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>         Subject:        Re: Tracking the wild mailscanner stats
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> >> Errors:-
> >> Rateup Error: Can't open mrtg/images/mesgs/mesgs-day.png for write
> >> WARNING: rateup died from Signal 0
> >>  with Exit Value 1 when doing router 'mesgs'
> >>  Signal was 0, Returncode was 1
> >> /usr/bin/rateup: No such file or directory
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> Do you have the following directories (and are they writable)?
> /var/www/html/mailstats/mrtg/images/mesgs/
> /var/www/html/mailstats/mrtg/images/virus/
> /var/www/html/mailstats/mrtg/images/spam/
> /var/www/html/mailstats/mrtg/images/load/
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