--- Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > error message:
> >
> > Jan 24 17:24:18 localhost /usr/sbin/gmetad[30443]: RRD_update
> > (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/production/raiden-8-db1/users.rrd):
> conversion
> > of
> > 'min,' to float not complete: tail 'min,'
> >
> > This seems to relate to a recent change I made that I had forgotten
> > about. :) I added the following line to my crontab:
> >
> > */2 * * * * /usr/bin/gmetric --name="users" --value=`w | head -1 |
> > awk '{print $6}'` --type=int16
> >
> > The purpose of this line is to create a graph representing the
> number
> > of
> > logged in users to the host. it seems right to me - do any of you
> > see a
> > problem with this line?
> >
>
> actually, on my system (FC4) your command results in:
>
> $ w | head -1 | awk '{print $6}'
> users,
> $
>
> which is not really what you want to put into that metric :-)
> Apparently yours seem to report "min," which would be "$4" on my
> system. The number of users would be "$5". Maybe different versions
> of
> "procps"?
>
> Hmm. Weird. Just played around with the setting of "LANG" and not
> the
> command reports "load" instead of "users,". Really weird .....
>
ha !!! The format of the "w" output changes with the uptime. The
position of the #users definitely flows around. Guess you need to work
on the awk. You need to look for "users" and take the token before
that.
Cheers
Martin
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