[rrd-users] Re: RRDtool update not updating

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

David Ulevitch wrote:

> That information is all correct.  The problem is that I ran it
> once from the command line, creating an entry but from then on, I
> couldn't add entries.  I set cron to run it every 5 minutes and it has
> no entries and I only see my lone entry when I run:
> 
> > /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.33/bin/rrdtool fetch ns1.rrd AVERAGE -s `date +%s`-14400 -e `date +%s`

Two possible problems:

1: when run from cron, the program is executed in another directory
   and thus the .rrd file cannot be found
2: the PATH environment variable is not setup and thus the "date"
   program cannot be found

cheers,
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