RRD shows the following error when trying to create the new image file: "Opening '../filename.gif' for write: Invalid argument"
This doesn't halt my PERL program, it continues on to the next step. When I attempt to manually delete the files, they will disappear from Explorer (until I "refresh" or re-run my search). The file is not being recreated, it still has a modify date that is not current. If I try to delete from a CMD prompt, I get no errors, but when I DIR again, it's still there. The permissions on the directory where all of the image files are being stored are as follows: Domain Admins: Full Control My Account: Full Control Everyone: Read It was intentionally setup this way because of the access by the user community to this server...I didn't want just anyone to have more than "read" permissions. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Alex van den Bogaerdt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Strange RRDTool Image File Behavior Schroeder, Dennis wrote: > Several of the image (.gif) files cannot be replaced with new ones by > RRDTool. I cannot delete them (I don't get an error, they just "reappear" > when I refresh the directory listing) using my account, but (and this is > strange) I can rename them. "Cannot be replaced". Does this mean that RRDtool stops with an error? "reappear". Could it be that they *are* recreated? If this happens right away, could there be a tight loop where RRDtool is called over and over again? > If I go to the server (WinNT 4.0 - logged in as "administrator"), I can > delete them from there and RRDTool will recreate them the next time around. > Has anyone ever seen this? It's very strange. By the way, MY account has > Domain Admin permissions, so there shouldn't be a file on any of our servers > I can't delete. Is this true? It works this way for root on unix but IIRC you don't need to permit the admin group anything if you don't want? The admin may steal your file (change ownership) but this doesn't mean the file can be read/changed/whatever prior to that? HTH -- __________________________________________________________________ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | work private | | My employer is capable of speaking therefore I speak only for myself | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Technical questions sent directly to me will be nuked. Use the list. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://faq.mrtg.org/ | | http://rrdtool.eu.org --> tutorial | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
