Thanks.

Amanda Waite wrote:
> OK, it all looks fine now.
>
> Amanda
>
> Lizhong Li wrote:
>> Amanda Waite wrote:
>>  
>>> The two man pages you've created have interface stability 
>>> information in them, which is correct when creating new man pages, 
>>> but you then install them with '_install M' which adds the contents 
>>> of sunman-stability to them.
>>>
>>> Can you check the man page only has the interface stability 
>>> specified once. I believe that if you create your own man pages 
>>> including stability information, you should install them as ordinary 
>>> files.
>>>     
>> Yes, the two man pages have interface stability information in them, 
>> so I'll use '_install N' for them.
>>
>> The webrev is updated.
>>
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~uniopen/mrtg/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>  
>>> Otherwise it looks fine.
>>>
>>> BTW: The interface stability is different in the man pages to that 
>>> specified in the sunman-stability file, which may or may not be a 
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Amanda
>>>
>>>
>>> Lizhong Li wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I just updated the webrev according your comments, could you kindly 
>>>> help
>>>> me review it ?
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~uniopen/mrtg/
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Cunningham wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>>>> Is it enough for an brief manpage if it's necessary to put the 
>>>>>> command
>>>>>> rateup into /usr/bin/ ?
>>>>>>                 
>>>>> That's sounds okay to me
>>>>>
>>>>> p
>>>>>
>>>>> Lizhong Li wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Paul and Jim,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just found that some customers maybe uses this tool 'rateup' to 
>>>>>> generate graphs they want ( see the link below ), so perhaps we 
>>>>>> should add a brief manpage for it ?
>>>>>> http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/nable-mrtg.en.html#nabble-td831333%7Ca831333 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or is it applicable to move it to other dirs instead of /usr/bin/ 
>>>>>> since just few customers uses this tool ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Cunningham wrote:
>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>>>> I can add the manpage for mrtg-traffic-sum,
>>>>>>>>>>> but for rateup, it's just used by mrtg program itself and 
>>>>>>>>>>> has no user interfaces,                                     
>>>>>> Sorry for the confusion, it gives the following prompt :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Usage: ./rateup -f <parameter file>
>>>>>>           ./rateup directory basename [sampletime] [t sampletime]
>>>>>>    [-(t)ransparent] [-(b)order][u|a|g|h|m in out abs_max] [i/p file
>>>>>>    maxvi maxvo maxx maxy growright step bits]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and the description in rateup.c is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     MRTG 2.16.2  -- Rateup
>>>>>>     *********************
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Rateup is a fast add-on to the great MRTG Traffic monitor.  
>>>>>> It makes
>>>>>>     the database file updates much faster, and creates the 
>>>>>> graphic image
>>>>>>     files, ready for processing by PPMTOGIF.  It also reduces memory
>>>>>>     requirements by a factor of 10, and increases the speed of 
>>>>>> updates
>>>>>>     by a factor of at least 10.  This makes it feasible to run mrtg
>>>>>>     every 5 minutes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     rateup attempts to compensate for missed updates by repeating 
>>>>>> the last
>>>>>>     sample, and also tries to catch bad update times.  The .log 
>>>>>> file stores
>>>>>>     real history every five minutes for 31 hours, then 
>>>>>> 'compresses' the
>>>>>>     history into 30 minute samples for a week, then 2-hour 
>>>>>> samples for
>>>>>>     31 days, then daily samples for two years.  This ensures that 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>     log files don't grow in size.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     The log files are a slightly different format, but convert.perl
>>>>>>     will fix that for you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Enjoy!
>>>>>>     Dave Rand
>>>>>>     dlr at bungi.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it enough for an brief manpage if it's necessary to put the 
>>>>>> command rrateup into /usr/bin/ ?
>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>>>> also there are no such details from the source code and 
>>>>>>>>>>> website, should the manpage be added for it ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>                                     
>>>>>>>>>> It sounds like rateup is a project private interface, so
>>>>>>>>>> no man page is needed.
>>>>>>>>>>                                 
>>>>>>>>> Just a thought - if it's a private interface should it be in 
>>>>>>>>> /usr/bin (ie. picked up by the default PATH)?
>>>>>>>>>                             
>>>>>>>> It would be nice if it didn't have to be.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lizhong,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there anyway to configure where rateup is located?
>>>>>>>>                         
>>>>>>> or less cleanly, you might be able to patch it
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> paul
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                     
>>>>         
>>
>>   
>

-- 
Thanks,
Lizhong


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