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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m on a roll this week… <span style='font-family:
Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>More patches for MRTG in the pipeline –<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Add wildcard support to the Include: directive. This
is something I’ve wanted for years and been too lazy to submit the
(small) patch required to make it work. Routers2 already supports this :P<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>In daemon mode, check for modifications to the cfg
file, and if so, reload the configuration. I’m still testing this
one because it is potentially difficult, as MRTG makes a few assumptions that
this won’t happen. I’m also using Tobi’s trick of using
–M rather than (time-stat()[9]) on the file age, and then $^T=time after
the reload.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>Identify RRD 1.4.999 or later, and use the new
rrdcached functions I added in the RRDTool patch if running in rrdcached/TCP
mode. This is the final hurdle to allow MRTG to run on a separate server
from the RRDTool database, allowing a true distributed MRTG setup. Some
additional code now in place to prevent re-testing of remote RRD files when in
rrdcached/TCP mode (as the –M test can no longer be used, of
course). Needs a bit more testing, though…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’ll be submitting these to Tobi once I’m happy
they’re stable. In the meantime, I’d appreciate any feedback
from the community.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Steve Shipway<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ITS Unix Services Design Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University of Auckland, New
Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street,
Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Phone: +64
(0)9 3737599 ext 86487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>DDI: +64
(0)9 924 6487<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Mobile: +64
(0)21 753 189<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Email: <a
href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz"><span style='color:#595959'>s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;
color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";
color:green'>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:blue'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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