[mrtg] Re: [robin at funmail.co.uk: script problem]

[Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt]

Options[foo] set to "absolute" or "gauge"? If not, mrtg is trying to 
calculate the difference between the current value and the last value
and graph/log it (which, for a fairly constatn statistic, is almost
always at or near 0).

	-g

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Robin Kearney wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:06:17 +0100
> From: Robin Kearney <robin at riviera.org.uk>
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] [robin at funmail.co.uk: script problem]
> 
> okay I hope somebody here can help me with this.
> 
> I have two scripts which get called from mrtg.conf, the first monitors incoming/outgoing mail and the second monitors sessions on a oracle db, their output is :
> 
> [root at dent mrtg]# ./mail-stats.sh 
> 162
> 933
> 
> [root at dent mrtg]# 
> 
> and
> 
> [root at admin mrtg]# ./sessions1.pl 
> 2545
> 2545 
> 
> [root at admin mrtg]# 
> 
> they are both called in the same manner:
> 
> Target[mail]: `/home/httpd/html/mrtg/mail-stats.sh`
> 
> but nothing seems to get logged in either the graphs or the log files.  For everything else (snmp) mrtg is working fine.
> 
> am I doing something wrong?
> 
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