mrtg [PSARC/2009/120 FastTrack timeout 02/27/2009]

[James Carlson]

Jim Walker writes:
> And I've updated the check list file according your comments:
> http://greatwall.prc/~ll222647/mrtg/

Please archive with the materials.  That's not accessible from outside
the SWAN.

> Generally people run mrtg by crontab to create the traffic statistic
> info, such as:
> 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg
> /var/apache2/
> 2.2/htdocs/mrtg.cfg
> 
> There's no daemon  process, too. So I think it's perhaps not applicable
> to be a SMF service, is it reasonable ?

OK ... I had expected there'd be more integration.

(One of the underlying issues is that cron-driven things don't really
have an SMF representation, and they should, so that users can control
them easily and so that we can ship prototype configurations.  But
that's not your problem.)

>       Are passwords stored within the file system for the component?
>       [*] Yes
>       [ ] No - continue to next section (section 3.4.6)

Should probably say something about where passwords are stored, just
for completeness.

> > Why /usr/bin?  Do ordinary users invoke this?
> >   
> Yes, users may use these commands manually or by crontab.

I did some looking around, and that seems common enough.

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