[mrtg] Re: STDIN ?

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

It actually was pretty simple - just a few added lines to MRTG_lib.pm allowing for STDIN, and now
I can call mrtg thusly:

/bin/cat /home/mrtg/configs/test.cfg | /home/mrtg/bin/mrtg STDIN



Alex van den Bogaerdt extolled:
> 
> Daniel R . Kilbourne wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > All,
> > Has anyone out there hacked mrtg/MRTG_lib.pm to allow mrtg to take config files as STDIN rather than a text file?
> 
> I didn't do so but even without my limited knowledge of perl: isn't it
> just as simple as comparing $cfgfile to '-' and setting <CFG> to stdin
> if so?
> 
> HTH
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