[rrd-users] Can't have spaces in Title

[Petteri Matilainen]

On 30.3.2013 2:12, Alan McKay wrote:
> Oh and I was just reminded of a seemingly simple problem I've been
> having - I can't put spaces in my titles.   Neither with single nor
> double quotes around the string, nor with putting \ before the spaces.
>     The examples I see all use double quotes so I have no idea what I'm
> doing wrong.
>
> root at userver:~/speedtest.net/rrd# rrdtool --version
> RRDtool 1.4.7  Copyright 1997-2012 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>
>                 Compiled Aug 15 2012 19:24:01
>
>
>
> rrdtool graph /var/www/speedtest/downloadday.png  --start -1d --end
> now --slope-mode --title 'speedtest.teksavvy.com download speed' -w
> 600 -h 200 --alt-autoscale-max --lower-limit 0 --vertical-label Mbps
> DEF:my500=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:500:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my500#aa00aa:500
> DEF:my1000=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:1000:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my1000#FF0000:1000
> DEF:my1500=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:1500:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my1500#00FF00:1500
> DEF:my2000=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:2000:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my2000#0000FF:2000
> DEF:my2500=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:2500:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my2500#FFFF00:2500
> DEF:my3000=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:3000:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my3000#00FFFF:3000
> DEF:my3500=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:3500:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my3500#FF00FF:3500
> DEF:my4000=/var/log/speedtest/speedtest.rrd:4000:AVERAGE
> LINE1:my4000#C0C0C0:4000
> CDEF:myavg=my500,my1000,my1500,my2000,my2500,my3000,my3500,my4000,8,AVG
> LINE2:myavg#000000:Average HRULE:28#000000:Advertised
> ERROR: Could not make sense out of 'download'
>

It should work with double quotes. I use simply -t "My title with 
spaces". Also make sure you don't have new lines without \ at the end of 
the line in your script.

-Petteri