[rrd-users] setting last_update

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:48:56AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:

> > You could try a much more simple case as well:
> > 
> > rrdtool create test.rrd DS:x:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0:1:5
> > rrdtool dump test.rrd
> 
> That looks OK

> # rrdtool dump test.rrd | less
> <!-- Round Robin Database Dump --><rrd> <version> 0003 </version>
>         <step> 300 </step> <!-- Seconds -->
>         <lastupdate> 1171554437 </lastupdate> <!-- 2007-02-15 
> 07:47:17 PST -->


Hmmm....

Try adding "--start=0".  Perhaps it isn't as harmless as it looks.

If that's not the problem, perhaps you can find out what is ?

> Should this be moved to the developers list?

Maybe, maybe not.  Users can debug problems, so I don't think
it is off topic here and now.

-- 
Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/