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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks; your suggestion about
google’ing for “LLARRD COMMENT” helped me find the fix to this issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>RRDTool
1.2 requires colons to be escaped within graph comments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Edit
larrd-grapher.cgi and look for the following lines (around line 1500 or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>thereabouts):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
RRDs::graph($RRD_graph,"-s",$graph_c{$service}{$graph}{'start_sec'},<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
"--title",$graph_c{$service}{$graph}{'title'},"-w576",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
"-v",$graph_c{$service}{'yaxis'},"-a","PNG","--lazy",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
&defs($host,$service,$graph,$disk_part),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
qq{COMMENT:$date\r});<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Note
the last line above, ie "qq{COMMENT:$date\r});"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It's
quite likely that your date variable will contain colons - therefore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>they
must be escaped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>A
quick and dirty way to take care of this is to insert the following line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>just
BEFORE the above code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $date
=~ s/:/\\:/g;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bitsch,
Bernhard [mailto:Bernhard.Bitsch@dbd-breitband.de] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 August 2007 18:21<br>
<b>To:</b> England, Stuart; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> AW: [rrd-users] ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after
command:COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I think, that’s not a bug but a
feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>You have to escape the colon (
: ) with a double backslash ( \\ ) if you use RRDs in perl.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I just tried it and it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Bernhard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=DE
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
rrd-users-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:rrd-users-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>Im
Auftrag von </b>England, Stuart<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 9. August 2007 17:39<br>
<b>An:</b> rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [rrd-users] ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 ' after command:COMMENT:Thu
Aug 9 16:27:36 2007</span><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hi, I am trying to use LARRD a
plugin to Big Brother system monitor from Quest but I keep running into broken
image links which when click on give the following error message<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>ERROR: Garbage ':27:36 2007 '
after command: COMMENT:Thu Aug 9 16:27:36 2007<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I have searched for a solution to
this problem and came across some posts on the Cacti website which seem to
indicate this is a bug with RRDTOOL. The Cacti website has downloads for
patches to fix this problem on Cacti but I cant find any information on fixing
this for Big Brother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></p>
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