[mrtg] Re: External perl scripts

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Cliff Fogle wrote:

> Having trouble calling an external perl script that parses timeticks for apc
> runtime on batt.  The perl script alone works as expected, but once in the
> MRTG config file the graph is created and the following error hits STDOUT.

[...]

> Here is the output from the perl script itself:
> 
> 	administrator at GALAXY /cygdrive/c/mrtg-2.9.10/bin
> 	$ perl apc.pl hostname
> 	16
> 	0
> 	0
> 	0

Filter this output through "od -tx1" to see what it actually
shows.  It will probably be an issue with whithespace, newlines,
that sort of stuff.  Maybe a chomp will help.

cheers,
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