Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:31:23AM -0400, Dwyer, Paul wrote: > Thanks for that answer, I did try your suggestions but to no avail. I have > read a lot of documents, one states that i have to register the rrdtool by > running >ppm install rrds.ppd, i did this and received the following error. > Any ideas. > > > D:\mrtg29\rrdtool\perl-shared>ppm install rrds.ppd > Installing package 'rrds.ppd'... Ah-ha ! The installation error message that is respnsible for the Perl mrtg program failing saying it can't find RRDs.pm. > Error installing package 'rrds.ppd': Read a PPD for 'rrds.ppd', but it is > not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) > > Cheers With luck, the MS Windows experts on the RRD users lists will be able to tell you how to proceed. Unfortunately, I have nothing to offer other than a quick STFW shows that this is a common error and http://www.enterastream.com/whitepapers/mrtg/mrtg-manual-cap6.html says, Register RRDTOOL package with the currently installed Perl distribution (at least Perl 5.6). Go to the ?perl-shared? folder and run the following command ... Is your MS Win Perl at least 5.6 ? The PPD is only suitable for installation on a host with the same version of Perl as that the PPD was compiled with. It seems to me that the PPD should tell you what version of Perl it is intended for. If you have the wrong PPD, you will need to get a replacement that is built for the same Perl as your MS host. >From http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/1745/2002/7/0/9135523/, the RRD MS Win binaries are produced by Tobi (who pays MS for their development tools so that he can provide 'free' rrdtool to MS users) and published on the RRD web site. Some of the archive names suggest Perl 5.8 (eg rrdtool-1.0.40.x86distr.zip-5.8.zip). The others may therefore be for 5.6.1. You may have to download a few (don't worry about the RRD version too much), unzip and scan the READMEs. Lastly, by way of a suggestion, you are not helping your cause by replying to me or any individual who answers a question posted to a list, personally (particuarly me). In this case, I thought I saw an ooportunity to save someone else from replying to a question about which I thought I could help. Restricting the correspondence to an answerer increases your risk of suffering from poor advice (whether malicious or simply stupid) without the regulation of the public forum, wasting your time when the answerer runs out of answers, as well as depriving others with the same problem from sharing the solution. > > Paul > > > Good luck. Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. -- 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
