[mrtg] Re: GD problem for Unix (DG/UX)

Larry Sheldon lsheldon at creighton.edu
Fri Jan 14 06:32:10 MET 2000


> I'm in the process of installing MRTG onto a Data General unix server. 
> However, when I do the ./configure,  I get notified that I must install the 
> GD libraries which support some type of font generation process. Can I work 
> around this?  Do I need GD? (I think is is GD) Is MRTG designed for Linux? 

In reverse order:  Best I can tell, Unix and Unix-like plus NT.  Yes. No.

I believe "gd" (or now "png", depending on which release of MRTG you
have) is what does the graphing--sort of the meat in the stew, so to speak.
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