[rrd-users] Re: RRDs::graph parsing error ???

[Philip Molter]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:49:07PM +0100, Engels, Manfred wrote:
: 
: Hi,
: 
: I just started making a small Perl program which utilizes the RRD tool as a
: library from within Perl, and I run into trouble using the 'RRDs::graph'
: function.
: 
: First of all I should say I run Perl & RRD from Windoze 2000. The UTIL.RRD
: is located in c:\test, whilst the perl program is in c:\prg (This is also
: the directory where the output should be created). Here is the part of the
: program that fails:
: 
: 
: 
: <snip> 
: $database	= "c:\\test\\util.rrd";
: $outputgraph	= "c:\\prg\\util.gif";
: 
: RRDs::graph ($outputgraph, "DEF:myutil=$database:Utilization:AVERAGE",
: "LINE2:myutil#FF0000");
: my $ERR=RRDs::error;
: die "\nError whilst updating $outputgraph\nError: $ERR\n" if $ERR;
: <snap>
: 
: 
: 
: When I run this, I get the following error:
: 
: Error whilst updating C:\prg\util.gif
: Error: can't parse DEF 'myutil=c:\test\util.rrd:Utilization:AVERAGE' -2

This needs to go in a FAQ or something.  The ':' is a delimiter in
the DEF, so the line 'DEF:myutil=c:\test\util.rrd:Utilization:AVERAGE'
gets parsed as if the ':' in the last half of the file name (after
'c:') is the graph data, instead of 'Utilization'.  The solution
is to escape your ':' in your path name.

The argument for less commonly-used separator is for someone else
to make.

* Philip Molter
* DataFoundry.net
* http://www.datafoundry.net/
* philip at datafoundry.net

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