CentOS 6 / MRTG 2.16.2
I've noticed that mrtg is running as root on one of my servers and that concerns me. Is this a requirement? I didn't see it mentioned in the mrtg documentation. Can this be changed?
From the documentation, under RunAsDaemon:
If you want mrtg to run under a particular user and group (it is not recomended to run MRTG as root) then you can use the --user=user_name and --group=group_name options on the mrtg commandline.
mrtg --user=mrtg_user --group=mrtg_group mrtg.cfg