How to use qmailmrtg7

1) Install mrtg

2) Make qmailmrtg7 as root. It needs to be able to read 
   your /var/qmail/queue directories

	# make

3) Install it
    # make install
    all this does is copy qmailmrg7 to /usr/local/bin
    
4) Create an mrtg working directory under your web servers
   document root.

   On default apache installations I do:
	mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/qmailmrtg

5) setup qmail.mrtg.cfg and index.html

   copy qmail.mrtg.cfg and index.html to the 
   directory you made in step 4.
   
   edit qmail.mrtg.cfg and index.html

   Change: FQDN to your hostname
   	FQDN = fully qualified domain name
   Change: WorkDir to point to your http mrtg directory

   Change the log file locations to where you store your qmail logs.
   I put my qmail-send logs in /var/log/qmail
   my pop3 longs in /var/log/pop3 and my smtp logs in /var/log/smtp

   If you are not logging pop or smtp comment out the pop3 and smtp
   sections with a # character at the beging of each line.

   You can update the pop3 and smtp lines and set the
   MaxBytes variable to match your -cX line in tcpserver.

   You can also update the concurrency to match your 
   concurrencyremote or concurrencylocal values. The default
   qmail values are 20 if those files do not exist in your
   /var/qmail/control directory

6) Add a crontab line 
   On my machine I do the following:
	crontab -e
	<Then I add the follownig line>
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/apache/htdocs/qmailmrtg7/qmail.mrtg.cfg 2>&1 > /dev/null

	<That will run mrtg every 5 minutes>
	exit the crontab editor

7) run mrtg 3 times to get it setup. You will get warning messages
   the first 3 times you run it. After that, you should not get more warnings
	/usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/apache/htdocs/qmailmrtg7/qmail.mrtg.cfg

8) wait 15 minutes for the logs to start showing things

9) Check out the graphs
	http://your host name/qmailmrtg/

10) Read the FAQ file 

Ken Jones
inter7.com