Welcome to MRTG
===============

> In order to MRTG build on a UNIX machine the following things are
> required.

  * a C compiler, preferably gcc or egcs 
  * a recent copy of perl, Version 5.004_4 should do -> www.perl.com
  * the GD library from Thomas Boutell -> www.boutell.com

  Once these are in compiled and installed type:

  ./configure

  configure will make sure your evironment is fit for building mrtg
  if it finds a problem, it will tell you so and it will also tell
  you what todo about it. If everything is OK, you will end up with
  a custom Makefile for your system. Now type:

  make

  this builds the rateup binary and edits all the perl pathnames in
  the scripts. All the software required by MRTG is now in the run
  subdirectory.

> If you downloaded the zip archive for NT, there is a precompiled
> version of rateup in the run directory ...


The next step is to configure MRTG by writing a mrtg.cfg file. You can
either do this by hand, using the config.txt and the sample-mrtg.cfg
file in the doc subdirectory, or you can use the cfgmaker program in
the run directory.

In any case, make sure you read the mrtg documentation in the
doc subdirectory. Especially the manual.txt.

tobi oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
