[mrtg] Re: mrtg-rrd.cgi - Multiple Config Files

[Steve Shipway]

Eric Brander wrote:
>One problem though... it is SLOW! The more configs I add to that list
>the slower the script runs.  Even for just listing out one 
...
>Alright folks, how about this?!?? Could I have one mrtg-rrd.cgi but 
>instead of hard coding the config files in the script, could I 
>put them on the URL?
If you are using a unix/linux server, then you can install speedycgi or
mod_perl.  These speed up a lot of things -- routers2.cgi will spot them and
cache the config files in shared memory and gets a huge speed increase, for
example.  I don't know about mrtg-rrd, but it should at least get some speed
gain.

The other thing looks a bit like a security risk (if you allow *any* file)
unless you restrict the path, in which case routers2 has this ability
already (and you can have a per-user filter on which cfg files are
permitted).  I think your idea with this, though, is to prevent the delay of
re-reading all the config files, which mod_perl or speedycgi can fix anyway.

(Apologies for the blatant plugging of routers2)

Steve

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