[Orca-dev] Patch for RRDtool 1.2

[Blair Zajac]

Alex Kiernan wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> 
>>Alex Kiernan wrote:
>>
>>>Here's a patch for RRDtool 1.2 support - it detects which version
>>>you're running with and does the right thing for both 1.0 and 1.2.
>>>I've actually been running with the patch using both RRDtool 1.0.50
>>>and 1.2.10 - using 1.2 w/ Orca is way too slow for old hardware, but
>>>it is a lot prettier :)
>>>
>>>Obviously the patch is based on what other's figured out, all I've
>>>done is conditionalise it appropriately (and not change the format of
>>>the date string).
>>
>>Hi Alex,
>>
>>Thanks for the patch.
>>
>>I don't have RRDtool 1.2 running, so what happens on 1.2 without the
>>patch?  Do you have a sample PNG you can email or link to?
>>
> 
> 
> Without it you get lots of errors of the form:
> 
> Garbage ':15:00 2005.' after command:
> COMMENT:Last data entered at Thu Apr 28 13:15:00 2005.
> 
> (sorry I'm cutting and pasting that from orca-users, as I don't have
> any live examples any more).
> 
> The problem's that 1.2 has an incompatible change:
> 
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/newin12.txt
> 
> (look down for Incompatibilities).
> 
> Obviously its the `:'s in the time stamp which are tripping it up.
> 

Alex,

Thanks, committed in revision 467.

Regards,
Blair

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