[mrtg] Re: Strange Error

[Larry Sheldon]

> Hey people, look what I get when I ran MRTG .....
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Warning: There is something wrong with Target '3:public at 10.32.8.170'
> 
> * Its ifDescr used to be 'HP 10/100TX PCI Ethernet Driver
> '
> * Now it is 'HP 10/100TX PCI Ethernet Driver                             '
> 
> It's used to be X and now it is X ! The SAME thing ! I didn't change the
> cards ! It's wrong ! To solve this, i added a cron entry that erases my
> mrtg.ok just before mrtg comes up ! BUT it shouldn't give me that error
> .....
> 
> I'm actually using 2.7.5 ( can't update to 2.8 cause I need things to be
> seen on v3 browsers, and they dont support png ).
> 
> Has anybody passed this before ? Any help ?

Yup.

The problem is that on both of them there is a character (I forget what)
that is interpreted as "end of line" when written to a file--so the
actual comparision is Xplussomestuff from SNMP versus X from the file.

There was a patch for the problem when I encountered it, at 2.5mumble, I think.
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