[lug] RRD

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:49:10PM -0700, jd wrote:
>920804700: nan
>920805000: 4.0000000000e-02
>920805300: 2.0000000000e-02
>920805600: 0.0000000000e+00
>[...]
>
>and heres is what the webpage says i must see, or *something* is wrong..
>
>20804700: NaN 
> 920805000:      0.04
> 920805300:      0.02
> 920805600:      0.00

The two outputs are the same, it's just they're using a different
representation of the same numbers (4e-02 == 0.04).  I think they
changed the representation of the output at some point -- I noticed the
same thing.

>What i want to do is parse /var/log/messages for iptable logs
>Based on the logs I want to build a rrd data base for each port
>that logged something, and how many times that port logged anything...

Yeah, that should be doable without too much problem.  I liked RRD
because creating custom graphs were really fast and fairly easy -- but I
always have to look at examples when I'm creating new ones...

Sean
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