Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Gore Jarold wrote: >So this is the other problem - and I'll just make the >question easy: > >If my update command is: > >rrdtool update hits.rrd 1141286400:1 1141372800:10 >1141459200:10 1141545600:12 1141632000:12 >1141718400:12 > >and I want my output with fetch to give me: > >1,10,10,12,12,12 >

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ...please help

2007-06-27 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rrd-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gore Jarold > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:14 PM > To: Simon Hobson; rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch > Subject: Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sampl

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-27 Thread Gore Jarold
Simon, Thank you for your response - you did make things clearer - see additional comments below, please: --- Simon Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Now look at my update statement - the first date is > >+86400 after --start, and each subsequent date is > >+86400 after the previous one: > >

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ...please help

2007-06-27 Thread Erik de Mare
Hi, RRDtool uses when updating a timestamp, I think calculated the following way: - % when you update you are inserting data at each day at 8:00. try updateing it at 0:00 (what rrdtool fetch prints, 1141257600 = Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT) rrdtool update hits.rrd 1141257600:1 1141344000:1

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Gore Jarold wrote: > > RRDtool behaviour is well documented. You have >> selected a step >> size of 86400, so every timestamp is a whole >> multiple of 86400. > > >Yes, I see that it is - and that is good, but it's the >_wrong_ multiple of 86400 - the dates coming out of my >RRD are (as far a

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-26 Thread Gore Jarold
--- Alex van den Bogaerdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:34:19PM -0700, Gore > Jarold wrote: > > > My question is simple: How do I plug in 6 test > values with 6 specific dates and successfully fetch > them back out again _exactly as I entered them_ ? > > RRDtool behav

Re: [rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-26 Thread Alex van den Bogaerdt
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:34:19PM -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > My question is simple: How do I plug in 6 test values with 6 specific dates > and successfully fetch them back out again _exactly as I entered them_ ? RRDtool behaviour is well documented. You have selected a step size of 86400, so

[rrd-users] can't sanity-check rrdtool with sample data ... please help

2007-06-26 Thread Gore Jarold
New user of rrdtool. I plan on graphing the number of hits I get each day on my webserver. I have logs going back over a year, so my RRD will be backdated many months back and I will populate it with a script that parses my weblogs. Sounds very easy, but beause I am new I decided to just test