Mrtg error after OS vendor update

If you’re seeing the following error after your OS updates mrtg if we’ve installed mrtg graphs for you:

ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg/mrtg.pid Daemonizing MRTG …

Simply do the following:

rm -fv /etc/cron.d/mrtg/etc/init.d/mrtg restart

You can ignore any subsequent mrtg errors referring to ETH1.