This script organizes config files for MRTG
and restarts the MRTG processes cleanly.
 
Author: Scott Ripley, U.S. House of Representatives
Version: 1.0 (and all that a 1.0 release entails)
Contact: scott.ripley@mail.house.gov
Copyright: (C) 2001 Scott Ripley
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

1.0 Installing

Since this is just a shell script, it can be installed anywhere.
The standard location is the /usr/local/sbin directory. It creates
temp files in the same directory as the MRTG binaries, which are
cleared out at the end of the script.

2.0 Configuration

You will need to set your pathnames for MRTG, a back-up directory,
and the location of your log files. That's it.

Note: This script only works if you are running MRTG as a daemon.
It relies on the presence of .pid files to identify your scripts.

3.0 Using adm-mrtg

The script reads mrtg's bin directory for pid files and displays
the appropriate config name on-screen.

If you make a change to a config file and want to reload it, type
in the number of the config file name. It will kill the process,
remove the .pid file and restart it. Once you go back to the home
screen, you should see a new date for that config under the
"Running" column.

4.0 Backing up with adm-mrtg

It is vitally important that you back up your config and log files
from time to time. Adm-mrtg will do that for you with the simple
press of the 'b' key.

It puts all your config files into a tar file with the format
"MRTG_<date>.cfgs.tar." It does the same with your .log and .old files.
If you want to gzip the files, you can uncomment the gzip lines in the
script.

5.0 Technical notes

The script was written in ksh on Solaris 7, but there's nothing
particularly machine-specific in it. It should only require minor
tweaking for other OS/shell combinations.

If you have changes or additions you'd like to make, I would enjoy
seeing a copy. Please e-mail your changes/comments/ideas to:
scott.ripley@mail.house.gov, or nevada@mac.com.

Thank you.