MRTG graphs resetting at 4am

[Kevin Miller]

Check to see when your logs are being rotated.  I'd hazard a guess that mrtg
is reading a new maillog (or whatever is appropriate) and starting over w/a
clean slate so to speak.  Might be something else totally though but log
dates are an easy thing to check...

...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:cparker at SWATGEAR.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:44 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: MRTG graphs resetting at 4am
>
>
>hi.
>
>starting a few weeks ago some of my MRTG graphs* are restting every day
>at 4am. that is to say they look similar to this:
>
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>|                                    ***********|
>|                                 **************|
>|                        ***********************|
>|      **         ******************************|
>|   *****    ***********************************|
>|******** **************************************|
>+-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-+
>0   2   4   6   8  10  12  14  16  18  20  22  24
>
>there isn't anything in /etc/cron.daily that i see to restart
>mailscanner and thus reset a counter (although i don't even
>think MS has
>anything to do with the counters used by MRTG??). i also don't see
>anything regarding MRTG in /etc/cron.daily.
>
>my Restart Every option is set at 14400 and the file check_MailScanner
>is in /etc/cron.hourly.
>
>since this didn't used to happen (actually it happened every ince in a
>whole but not on a consistent daily basis) i assume it has something to
>do with a configuration change i've made somewhere. anyone have any
>ideas what that might have been?
>
>
>thanks,
>chris.
>
>* Number of Messages Processed, Bytes of Mail Processed, Mail
>Determined
>To Be Spam
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