[mrtg-developers] More patches: Include and cfg file changes

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Steve Shipway wrote:

> I'm on a roll this week... :)
>
> More patches for MRTG in the pipeline -
>
> 1.       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
>
> 2.       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.
>
> 3.       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...
>
> 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.

go steve go!
tobi


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