[mrtg] Re: Counter keeps overwriting its own log?

[Eric Brander]

Marcus Olson wrote:

>Thanks, I'll let you know in about an hour if that worked.  Why would it
>rewrite that first line instead of just writing the first line, and
>everything after staying at Zero and never changing until something big
>happened resulting in..
>
>1127306917 230 230
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 10 10
>1127306917 0 0
>1127306917 0 0
>  
>

The first line is the last reading.  The subsequent lines are the 
calculated rates based on that last reading and the next reading.  MRTG 
charts the rates, not the raw readings from the counter.

More information:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg-logfile.html


Regards,
Eric Brander

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