[rrd-users] Re: probelms with timestamp

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In article <4.2.0.58.20000413153724.00a61da0 at mail.nextra.ch> you wrote:

> i just have a little probelm. I'm just generationg some graphs and all 
> works fine, except the time-value. I want to put a text like "last updated 
> on " in my png files. I managed to get used bandwith etc. values in the 
> graph but not the timestamp from the last entrie in the RRD file. I already 
> tried it on different ways but the result was always the same - it doesn't 
> work.
>
> could someone give me some help ?

A workaround:

$last = RRDs::last('rrdfile');
$lasttime=localtime($lasttime);
$lasttime =~ s/:/\\:/;
push (@aDEF, 'COMMENT:Current Timestamp\: '.$lasttime.'\\r');

BTW: Why is it necessary to excape : in the comment/legend strings? They are
the last fields in the arguments ...

Rainer
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Rainer.Bawidamann at informatik.uni-ulm.de

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