[mrtg] Re: Netscape

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday you sent me mail regarding Re: [mrtg] Re: Netscape:

MCC> The information provided is insufficient to identify the nature of the
MCC> problem.  Netscape Navigator is capable of displaying both GIF and PNG
MCC> graphic images.  It does, however, have a problem with transparent PNG
MCC> images.  I'm using versions 4.73 and 4.75 of Netscape.
MCC> 
MCC> I am still running 2.8.12 of MRTG.  There wasn't a need to make any changes
MCC> to the code as it determined which graphic image format it was going to
MCC> generate based on the version of Thomas Boutell's GD Library that you had
MCC> present when you configured MRTG.

this is still the case ... for the unix version

the precompiled windows binary of rateup used to generate gif
images and does now generate png images ... changeing the
file extension does not have any influence on the image format
generated ...

cheers
tobi

MCC> Merton Campbell Crockett
MCC> 
MCC> 
MCC> 
MCC> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, SHOLAAS Margaret G wrote:
MCC> 
MCC> > 
MCC> > Maybe it's not in the docs, but I just stumbled on it reading the scripts.
MCC> > Tobi, could you verify? I believe you find the line in the main MRTG perl
MCC> > script where it says
MCC> > 
MCC> > $main::GRAPHFMT="png";
MCC> > 
MCC> > and change it to
MCC> > 
MCC> > $main::GRAPHFMT="gif";
MCC> > 
MCC> > -----Original Message-----
MCC> > From: David Tuck [mailto:david.tuck at generalcybernetics.com]
MCC> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 3:13 PM
MCC> > To: 'SHOLAAS Margaret G'; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
MCC> > Subject: [mrtg] Re: Netscape
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
MCC> > I looked in the documentation and could not find how to make it use GIF's
MCC> > instead of PNG's which it did by default.  Can you point me to the
MCC> > documentation that has these instructions?  I have several users that prefer
MCC> > Netscape and all have the same problem.  I guess Netscape doesn't read .png
MCC> > files by default so I need to make them .gif files.  Thanks for your help.
MCC> > 
MCC> > -----Original Message-----
MCC> > From: SHOLAAS Margaret G [mailto:Margaret.G.SHOLAAS at ris.lane.or.us]
MCC> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:39 PM
MCC> > To: 'David Tuck'; 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
MCC> > Subject: RE: [mrtg] Netscape
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
MCC> > Probably your Netscape isn't set up for the graphics format you're using,
MCC> > e.g. if you're using .png, your Netscape may not understand that, but IE
MCC> > does. You could try using .gif format instead. I believe the MRTG
MCC> > documentation describes how to configure for that.
MCC> > 
MCC> > -----Original Message-----
MCC> > From: David Tuck [mailto:david.tuck at generalcybernetics.com]
MCC> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:29 PM
MCC> > To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
MCC> > Subject: [mrtg] Netscape
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
MCC> > Does anyone know why the graphs do not show up in Netscape Communicator 4.7
MCC> > but do show up in IE?  All of the other data shows up, just not the graphs.
MCC> > 
MCC> > Thanks.
MCC> > 
MCC> > 
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