On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:36, mingching.tiew@redtone.com wrote: > I know MRTG runs perl script to keep things working for all > platforms. My question is, does MRTG run C program ? > I last work on perl script some 5 years ago, almost forgotten > everything about perl script. Perl is easy. Download some scripts (like mine from docum.org, or larrd, or mrtg). The rrdtool tool is simple if you adapt an existing sript so you don't have to bother for the options. Or run rrdtool from the command line. Stef > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stef Coene" <stef.coene@docum.org> > To: <mingching.tiew@redtone.com>; <lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:59 PM > Subject: Re: [LARTC] API using cbq / tc ? > > > On Monday 10 February 2003 02:58, mingching.tiew@redtone.com wrote: > > > Cool. As an MRTG idiot, I am going to ask this question, > > > why can't it provide realtime stats ? You mean MRTG > > > does not chart real time graphs ? > > > > Mrtg is not designed for that. Mrtg uses rrdtool to generate the graphs. > > You give the rrdtool each 5 minutes a number. This number is stored in a > > rrd > > > file. And you can generate a graph with the data in the rrd file. > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
