Re: MRTG ERROR

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 11/03/15 07:40 AM, "Diác. C.J.Moretti" wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A few days to hj'm getting a mail from my server with the following error:
>
>
> Cron <root@mitranhsi> if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ] 
> && [ -d "$(grep '^[[:space:]]*[^#]*[[:space:]]*WorkDir' /etc/mrtg.cfg 
> | awk '{ print $NF }')" ]; then mkdir -p /var/log/mrtg ; env LANG=C 
> /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log ; fi
>
> 2015-03-09 22:40:27: ERROR: I guess another mrtg is running. A 
> lockfile (/var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l) aged
> 773 seconds is hanging around. If you are sure that no other mrtg
> is running you can remove the lockfile
>
>
> Can someone give me a hint on how to fix this?
>
> Moretti

As root remove the lock file.

e.g.:
su
rm /var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l
exit

or if you are using sudo instead of a root account:

sudo rm /var/lock/mrtg/_etc_mrtg.cfg_l