[Orca-users] Re: graphs not updating

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sun Oct 21 15:55:14 PDT 2001


Michael O'Dea wrote:
> 
> perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1000000000'
> 
> gives
> Sat Sep  8 21:46:40 2001
> 
> However, this problem has been happening before the rollover (which was 2?)
> weeks ago.
> 
> various graphs don't update - we have it graphing qmail stats, standard
> system stats, etc. Some of the qmail related ones no longer update, even
> after multiple retries. The times that the graphs last updated vary, July
> 4th, July 13th, Aug 5th, etc. It seems pretty random at this point.
> 
> thanks for looking into this
> -m
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac
> To: orca-users at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: 9/21/2001 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-users] graphs not updating
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When is the last time and date that the plots showed up correctly?
> Also,
> which timezone are you i n?
> 
> Can you run
> 
> perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1000000000'
> 
> and send the output?
> 
> I'm wondering if this has to do with time() rolling over to 1000000000.
> 
> Regards,
> Blair
> 
> Michael O'Dea wrote:
> >
> > howdy,
> >
> > I have upraded my reporting server to the l atest Orca version, updated
> perl,
> > and many of the other needed perl modules, and have managed to get the
> > system up and running again - However, I am still having problems with
> some
> > graphs, they just refuse to update. I have rm'd the .png, meta, html &
> rrd
> > files and restarted orca - only to find fresh graphs with the same
> stale
> > data & time stamps. Is there something I am missing?
> >
> > thanks
> > -m
> >
> > ps, the percol files are also being updated correctly

Michael,

Is this problem fixed?  Any luck in tracking this problem down?

I don't have any idea on what could be causing this if its not the
time() rollover.

Best,
Blair

-- 
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