[mrtg-announce] mrtg-2.17.0 is out with rrdcached support and bugfixes

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi List,

I have released MRTG 2.17.0. It contains support for rrdcached,
glob support for the include directive and automatic reloading of
the configuration on change.

Thanks to Steve Shipway, John Belshaw, Duncan J. Ferguson
and Stuart Henderson for contributing code for this release.

get your copy from http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg

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tobi oetiker

Changes 2.17.0, 2010-12-15
--------------------------
Steve Shipway:
* added rrdcached support

  - new keyword:  RRDCached: which overrides anything set in the
    RRDCACHED_ADDRESS environment variable and sets MRTG to work in
    RRDCached mode.  This verifies that you're using a unix-domain
    socket and the socket is writable.

  - Check for environment variable RRDCACHED_ADDRESS and use this
    if no explicit address was set in the cfg file, making the same
    config validity checks.

  - Make warning if using rrdcached to the effect that the threshold
    checks will no longer work.

  - If in rrdcached-mode, and using RRDTool 1.4, then force use of
    update rather than updatev (as rrdcached does not yet support
    updatev) and consequently bypass the threshold checks.

  - Changes to validity check error messages  to also report the
    file containing the error (as well as the line).

* Added support for glob patterns in include

* Make daemon reload cfg automatically when it changes

John Belshaw:

* added support for Arista to cfgmaker

Duncan J. Ferguson

* fix cfgmaker to work in mixed v1/2/3 snmp environment

Stuart Henderson

* do not stringify arguments to conversion function let eval take
  care of this

* untaint inlast and outlast to make  perl taint mode happy

* teach cfgmaker about openbsd

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