[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Dave, you start the pipe mode with rrdtool - write a script with just the rrdtool commands - graph - and pipe it into rrdtool cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 --

[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Kant, D (Dave) wrote: >I'm not sure I understand the correct format for invoking rrdtool's pipe mode. >Do you mean something like this? > > rrdtool graph < my_long_arg_list.txt > out > >where my_long_arg_list.txt would look something like this? > >[]cat my_long_arg_list.txt >site_disk_HMW6dFGqY4.

[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Kant, D (Dave)
18 December 2006 17:06 To: Kant, D (Dave) Cc: Andreas Maus; rrd-users@list.ee.ethz.ch Subject: [rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long? Hi Dave, if you use the rrdtool pipe mode then the limitations of your shell will not apply! cheers tobi Today Kant, D (Dave) wrote: > > My script

[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Dave, if you use the rrdtool pipe mode then the limitations of your shell will not apply! cheers tobi Today Kant, D (Dave) wrote: > > My script is basically one very long line. > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/rrdtool graph site_disk_HMW6dFGqY4.png -t 'Used Disk Storage' > -s -3m -w500 -h125 -l 0 DE

[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Kant, D (Dave)
My script is basically one very long line. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/rrdtool graph site_disk_HMW6dFGqY4.png -t 'Used Disk Storage' -s -3m -w500 -h125 -l 0 DEF:A=A_multidisk.rrd:Used:MAX DEF:B=B_multidisk.rrd:Used:MAX ... I tried using "sed" to insert a line continuation character before each DEF and CD

[rrd-users] Re: Argument List too long?

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Maus
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:52:38PM -, Kant, D (Dave) wrote: Hi Dave. > Hi there, > > ./tier2.sh: line 3: /usr/bin/rrdtool: Argument list too long > > We have an rrd script which attempts to graph over 600 data sources. > Is there anyway to deal with the "Argument list too long" error? > Is it