[mrtg] Re: can't get work 'gauge' option

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Alex Antropoff wrote:

> > The first line of your log file should show you the values you
> > collected with this script.  If they are not showing proper values
> > then something's wrong when trying to call this script.

> The data in log is correct, but it looks like option gauge is emitted :-/
> After first start of mrtg log is ok, but after next runs log looks like:
> 1007769601 0 0

So, MRTG thinks your script returned 0 and 0 as the values.

> During all time of test values from script were equal to 3.

Try debugging that.  Either you think your script should return
3 while it doesn't, or something strange is going on in the
interaction between your script and MRTG.

I found it useful from time to time when I stored the output of
such scripts in a log file (not *the mrtg* log file !).  Sometimes
"hidden" characters cause strange results, think of things like
"8^H3" or maybe "\n\n3\n3\nuptime\nsysname".

Just duplicate any output to a log, for instance something like:

 [original]
   echo $in
   echo $out
   echo $uptime
   echo systemname
 [debug version]
   TIMESTAMP=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
   echo $in > /tmp/script.out.$TIMESTAMP
   echo $out >> /tmp/script.out.$TIMESTAMP
   echo $uptime >> /tmp/script.out.$TIMESTAMP
   echo systemname >> /tmp/script.out.$TIMESTAMP
   echo $in
   echo $out
   echo $uptime
   echo systemname

HTH
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