Hi all,

I've just recently replaced my old firewall with a new one, running CentOS 5..

Yesterday, I decided to get MRTG up and running again, so I entered sections like this into the mrtg.conf file:

Title[vlan10]: Bandwidth usage on tenchi.4th-age.com (Internet) PageTop[vlan10]: <H1>Traffic stats on VLAN 10 (Internet)</H1> Target[vlan10]: `ifconfig vlan10 | /usr/bin/awk '/bytes/{ gsub(/:/, " "); print $3 "\n" $8}'` MaxBytes[vlan10]: 12500000 Options[vlan10]: noinfo, growright, bits WithPeak[vlan10]: wmy

The Target is all on one line in the file.

This config worked fine on my old firewall, but on the new, I get this in the log files:

[root@tenchi mrtg]# head /var/lib/mrtg/vlan10.log 1218175802 -1 -1 1218175802 3 3 3 3 1218175501 3 3 3 3 1218175500 3 3 3 3

When testing, I ran the mrtg command, precisely as it is written in /etc/cron.d/mrtg, and that placed real values where now it says -1, but as soon as the cron job ran, the values became -1 again.

I hope someone can shed some light on this problem..