[smokeping-users] Re: Incorrect Timestamp

[Vanish Pattni (DSL AK)]

Not sure if this is a great help to you or not but here goes:

I had a similar problem with mrtg once where I had it going then I reset the
time. This caused it to *burp* and die. In my case the clock had gone back.
I think the RRD file keeps a note of when it was last updated.

The solution if you don;t mind losing the past data (I had been running that
particular instance for a day or so) is to delete the RRD file and restart
the smokeping services.

However I know that there must be a better solution where you can manually
reset the time stamps in the rrd file but I am at loss there.

cheers
Vanish

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Stewart [mailto:mysticalreaperlist at shaw.ca]
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 3:48 AM
To: smokeping-users at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [smokeping-users] Incorrect Timestamp



I am having a very strange problem with a brand new setup of Smokeping. 
(i've got one on anther box that works just fine, with a very similar 
setup).  The timestamps are completely wrong.  Well not completely, just 
7 hours wrong.

Example: At 15:00 UTC, local time is 10:00 CST.  However, Smokping is 
generating a timestamp of 17:00, on the correct day.

Things i know:
'date' gives correct time, in correct timezone
'date -u' gives correct UTC time
MRTG even gives me the correct local time.

Now, i did mess with the clock after i started smokeping.  I started it, 
then realized the clock was wildly off, and needed to be set.  So i got 
nptd running, ran ntpdate, and synced everything up.  Caused a huge gap 
to appear in smokeping, but I don't mind.

So is there any config in smokeping that i've not got set right?  Or is 
it something else?

system: Debian GNU/Linux "Sarge", kernel 2.4.19
smokeping: 1.12, as packaged by Debian

Thanks for using your brainpower to help me,
Jonathan

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