Hi, if u use "interval" you have to use actual time instead of "N:" (at least it didn't want to work otherwise for me)
If it still dont work, turn off input buffering $| = 1; Regards Mariusz 2010/10/28 Suraj <su...@sunson.in>: > Hi, > I'm facing the following issue with executing an exec plugin that is a perl > script. The script is quite bare bones and just prints out a PUTVAL. An > identical shell script ends up creating the RRD but the same with a perl > script does not work: > To illustrate the problem, here is some setup information: > types.db: > ------------ > svc failures:COUNTER:0:9223372036854775807 > > The following setup does not work when using a perl exec plugin: > collectd.conf: > ------------------- > LoadPlugin exec > <Plugin exec> > Exec "foo" "/usr/local/bin/collectd_test.pl" > </Plugin> > collectd_test.pl: > ------------------------------------------ > #! /usr/bin/perl > while (1) { > print 'PUTVAL sometest/exec-magicpl/svc-service interval=60 N:40' . > "\n"; > sleep 60 > } > Whereas, the following works when using a shell script: > collectd.conf: > ------------------- > LoadPlugin exec > <Plugin exec> > Exec "foo" "/usr/local/bin/collectd_test.sh" > </Plugin> > collectd_test.sh > ----------------------- > #! /bin/bash > while [ true ]; do > echo 'PUTVAL sometest/exec-magicshell/svc-service interval=60 > N:40' > sleep 60 > done > In the shell based setup, when collectd -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf -f is > run directly, I can see the "0 Success" message (I presume from the rrdtool > plugin or perhaps the plain-text-protocol-interpreter?). Whereas, with the > perl based plugin, the rrd does not get created. > The log does not have anything though the loglevel is in debug mode. > What am I doing wrong here and how can I get perl based plugins to work? > thanks, > -Suraj > > _______________________________________________ > collectd mailing list > collectd@verplant.org > http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd > > _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd