questions on MRTG
1. Why is it not advisable to run mrtg as root?
2. My MRTG graph kinda looks strange to me (www.dnspropagation.net/mrtg/), since the incoming traffic into the server is about 1/3 that of outgoing traffic. FTP/email transfer do not seem to explain this, especially after looking at the mrtg graph for the sites hosted on the server (with practically zero incoming traffic). Hence, what is the source of this incoming traffic?
3. The MRTG (average monthly) does not seem to match the report made by webalizer. I know that bandwith measured by average method will be the same (or about the same) as the actual data transfer. Even if I cosnider outgoing traffic only (monthly average), it's about 50GB of transfer/mo yet webalzier claims only around 35GB ... Can anybody explain the difference?
BTW, MRTG and bandmin now report about the same number! With respect to this, I would like to see about any reports where MRTG and bandmin differ. Both MRTG (with the patched version given by RutRow, see link above) and bandmin record bandwith the same way (getting info from eth card, I believe), but webalizer only analyze data on http log. So why is webalizer to be trusted moren than bandmin or MRTG?
That's all for now ... if I have further question, I will post here. Thanks in advance
cheers,
