Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 MRTG packages

[Lauchlin <lauchlin_list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/11/2003, at 2:06 AM, Steven White wrote:

> Did you try the tried-and-true http://www.mrtg.org/?  If so, what 
> exactly
> about it didn't work?  I ask because I'm planning on using it on my 
> network.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----

Hi Steve,

The short story:

yes I did.

The long story:

that is where I found some RedHat 7 & 6 RPMS (I also search rpmfind.net 
& google of course).  The problem I had was that every RPM I tried 
depended on versions of gd and pnglib that conflicted with the PHP 
package from pkgmaster.com so if I upgraded one thing it would break 
another.  Essentially I could not find an RPM or package that did not 
conflict in some way with an already installed package on a pretty much 
standard RaQ4i (and I didn't want to install from a source tar ball as 
I like to try and keep package management clean)

 What I ended up doing (so I could use the libraries installed by the 
pkgmaster.com pacakge) was download a source RPM for RedHat 7,  changed 
some bits and pieces and then rebuilt the RPM into a .pkg file that I 
could install via the web interface.  I also had to download the source 
RPMS for a gd and pnglib from pkgmaster.com and rebuild them so I could 
install the devel RPMS.

The .pkg I have built also comes ready set up to graph a few essential 
services like:

traffic on eth0
disk usage
processes
load averages
established connections
time_wait connections

you should be able to just plug the .pkg in and go. ;-)

Cheers,

Lauchlin