[rrd-users] Re: RRDs::create not creating

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Chris Majewski wrote:

>
> Folks
> I'm unable to create an rrd with RRDs::create under rrdtool 1.0.35.
> I'm doing this:
>
>     my @createParams = ($compareRRD,
>                         '--start',
>                         $fromTime,
>                         '--end',
>                         $untilTime,
>                         "DS:@$names[0]:GAUGE:400:U:U",
>                         "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:300");
>     RRDs::create(@createParams);
>     if ($error ne '') { # something bombed
>          warn("RRDs error: ", RRDs::error);
>     }
>
> I don't get any RRDs error, and yet the file is not created.
> If I create the file beforehand with sysopen(), I end up with an empty
> file. What's up?

the error test must be

my $error = RRDs::error;
warn "ERROR: $error\n" if $error;

tobi
>
> -chris
>
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