Weird thing I can't seem to figure out... Is there a reason that the font sizes (and graphs themselves) on the graphs created via MRTG/RRD would be small and ugly due to using the pre-compiled package vs a "compiled from source" implementation of the RRDtool package?
On a number of boxes (OpenBSD 3.5 to 3.8), I see this consistantly. For example, I have the pre-compiled package for the OS version for MRTG (ex: mrtg-2.10.13 on 3.5, mrtg-2.12.2 on 3.8). On one box I use the pre-compiled RRDtool package, rrdtool-1.0.49, and on another I use a "compiled from source" RRDtool (same version, rrdtool-1.0.49; I guess it doesn't change much from one to another). On the box that has the 'compiled from source' RRD, the graphs created have normal, easily read letters and numbers (the 'bits per second' thing on the left side of the graph, or the 10/20/30Mb/s levels, etc), but on the box with the package version of RRD, the letters are very tiny and squished together. Also, the graphs themselves seem to be larger, and/or seem to resize themselves based on the monitor size; on the box with the packaged RRD, they stay tiny regardless if the video card setting is 800x600 or 1280x1024. This is easily replicated across different hardware. There's not any diff I can see in regards to "installed fonts". In fact, the box that has a pretty set of graphs has fewer installed font (and otherwise) packages. Here's some of the particulars: Box with pretty MRTG fonts and graphs: 1) OpenBSD 3.5 2) MRTG installed via package 3) RRDtool compiled locally (1.0.49) List of all pre-compiled installed packages: arping-1.07 ARP level ping utility bash-2.05b GNU Bourne Again Shell fping-2.2b1 quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network freetype-1.3.1p1 free and portable TrueType font rendering engine gd-1.8.3 graphics library for fast PNG creation gettext-0.10.40p1 GNU gettext jpeg-6b IJG's JPEG compression utilities libiconv-1.9.1 character set conversion library libnet-1.0.2a raw IP packet construction library login_ldap-3.3 provide ldap authentication type mrtg-2.10.13 multi-router traffic grapher nmap-3.50-no_x11 scan ports and fingerprint stack of network hosts ntp-4.1.74 network time protocol implementation openldap-client-2.1.27 Open source LDAP software (client) p5-Pod-Escapes-1.03 library to resolve perl Pod escape sequences p5-Pod-Simple-2.05 framework for parsing the Perl Pod format p5-SNMP_Session-0.99 provides rudimentary access to remote SNMP agents pcre-4.5 perl-compatible regular expression library pftop-0.4 curses-based real time state and rule display for pf pine-4.58 program for Internet E-mail and News pktstat-1.7.3b network traffic viewer png-1.2.5p2 library for manipulating PNG images tacacs+-4.0.4ap0 Cisco AAA protocol daemon ucd-snmp-4.2.6 extendible SNMP implementation wget-1.8.2 retrieve files from the 'net via HTTP and FTP Box with UGLY MRTG fonts and graphics: 1) OpenBSD 3.8 2) MRTG installed via package 3) RRDtool installed via package List of all pre-compiled installed packages: bash-3.0.16p1 GNU Bourne Again Shell cvsweb-2.0.6p1 WWW CGI script to browse CVS repository trees esound-0.2.34 sound library for Enlightenment expect-5.43.0 sophisticated scripter based on Tcl/Tk fping-2.2b1 quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network freetype-1.3.1p1 free and portable TrueType font rendering engine gd-1.8.3 graphics library for fast PNG creation gettext-0.10.40p3 GNU gettext glib-1.2.10p0 useful routines for C programming gtk+-1.2.10p3 General Toolkit for X11 GUI jpeg-6bp2 IJG's JPEG compression utilities libaudiofile-0.2.6 SGI audiofile library clone libiconv-1.9.2p1 character set conversion library mozilla-firefox-1.0.6p3 redesign of Mozilla's browser component mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6 redesign of the integrated Mozilla App-Suite mail component mrtg-2.12.2 multi-router traffic grapher mysql-client-4.0.24 multithreaded SQL database (client) nagios-2.0b4p0 host and service monitor nagios-plugins-1.4.1 nagios base plugins nagios-plugins-fping-1.4.1p0 fping plugin nagios-plugins-mysql-1.4.1p0 mysql plugin nagios-plugins-snmp-1.4.1p0 plugins using snmp nagios-web-2.0b4 cgis and webpages for nagios ncftp-3.1.9 ftp replacement with advanced user interface net-snmp-5.1.3p0 extendable SNMP implementation p5-Crypt-DES-2.03 interface to the DES encryption algorithm p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 interface to HMAC Message-Digest Algorithms p5-Digest-SHA1-2.10 module to calculate SHA1 digests p5-Net-SNMP-4.0.3 Perl modules to access SNMP p5-Pod-Escapes-1.04 library to resolve perl Pod escape sequences p5-Pod-Simple-3.02 framework for parsing the Perl Pod format p5-SNMP_Session-1.07 provides rudimentary access to remote SNMP agents pine-4.63 program for Internet E-mail and News png-1.2.8 library for manipulating PNG images rrdtool-1.0.49 system to store and display time-series data sdl-1.2.8p0-sun cross-platform multimedia library sdl-ttf-2.0.6 SDL TrueType fonts library tcl-8.4.7p1 Tool Command Language tk-8.4.7 graphical toolkit for Tcl Ideas???
