On Wednesday at 1:44pm, CW=>Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CW> Hi all, CW> CW> rrdtool does not always exit with a return code greater than 0 when CW> there is a problem with its command line. For example: CW> Chris, Related to this topic, I posted this on the rrd-users list a while ago (Oct 1, 2004): http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users/msg09002.html and then on the developer list (Oct 21, 2004): http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers/msg01344.html If memory serves me right, I got a reply from Tobi (which I can't find) asking me to provide a patch (which I did). Dunno what happened to it afterwards. CW> [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ /usr/bin/rrdtool create /foo/bar.rrd --start CW> 1112784412 DS:battery_voltage:GAUGE:600:U:U CW> DS:input_frequency:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:input_voltage:GAUGE:600:U:U CW> DS:input_voltage.minim:GAUGE:600:U:U CW> DS:input_voltage_maximum:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:ups_load:GAUGE:600:U:U CW> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 CW> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 CW> ERROR: can't parse argument 'DS:input_voltage.minim:GAUGE:600:U:U' CW> CW> [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ echo $? CW> 0 CW> CW> The output error message could also be more useful. I had to use trial CW> and error to find out that the maximum length of a variable name was 19 CW> characters and that dots (.) were not allowed. CW> CW> Cheers, Chris. CW> -- Haroon Rafique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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
