var lock mrtg goes missing

[BradZynda]

Not sure if

2017-07-21 15:25:01: ERROR: Creating templock /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l_5366: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/mrtg line 1961.

is an mrtg error or lock management issue but could something be put in somewhere that does:

if [ ! -d "/var/lock/mrtg" ]; then
mkdir /var/lock/mrtg
fi

What would be the best place?

-Brad

[dwhitfield]

Did you import mrtg files from another server? If so, take a look at https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =10#p23188

Either way, what's the output of the following:

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LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok

[BradZynda]

It does not return anything..

but in order to fix it we changed:

/etc/cron.d/mrtg

From:
*/5 * * * * root LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok

To:
*/5 * * * * root if [ ! -d /var/lock/mrtg ]; then mkdir /var/lock/mrtg; fi && if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ]; then env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --lock-file /var/lock/mrtg/mrtg_l --confcache-file /var/lib/mrtg/mrtg.ok ; fi

[dwhitfield]

but in order to fix it we changed:

It sounds like this issue has been resolved. Is it okay if we lock this thread? Thanks for choosing the Nagios forums!

[BradZynda]

yep, please close