[rrd-developers] RRDCacheD - Client rewriting path

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Yann,

Today Yann Jouanin wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> It seems the behavior of RRD client when using RRDCacheD can make trouble
> when using RRDCacheD on another host than the one where using client.
>
> The translation between relative path and absolute path is done in client
> code (rrdc_flush) while it should only be done by the server.
>
> This causes update to fail because the path is badly rewritten.
> I had to comment the following line to fix this.
>
>
>
> int rrdc_flush (const char *filename) /* {{{ */
> {
> .........
>
>
>   /* change to absolute path for rrdcached */
> /*  if (*filename != '/' && realpath(filename, file_path) != NULL)
>       filename = file_path; */
> ............

Yann, can you elaborate how you would handle relative path names on
the server side ?

cheers
tobi



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