On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jimmy Olsen wrote: > I've added it as a contrib plugin to 1.2 and 1.3.
I can't seem to find where this is added. I've browsed through the CVS repository tagging on the different 1.2 and 1.3 branches I could find, and by downloading the .tar.gz's and looking in there. > - Made COURIER_LOG location configurable > - Made SERVICE overridable > - Made TEMP_FILE use mktemp for security reasons These seem like good changes! > - Made LOGTAIL location configurable (I _hate_ that program). I agree, I wish there was a better way to do it... > If you modify your plugin slightly (so it reports the number of > logins/logouts as a COUNTER or DERIVE), and improve the autoconf section > to actually check if Courier is in use, I'll make it an auto plugin (auto > plugins are automatically probed when installing munin-node). I'd love to modify it so that it can do that, if you can help me figure out where the version is that you modified. Also -- I don't know the difference between COUNTER and DERIVE, so I did a little searching, and I believe this is the correct information: "The Data Source Type (DST) which is one of GUAGE, COUNTER, DERIVE or ABSOLUTE. The Guage DST works like you'd expect and is generally the best choice. Counters continuously increase, Derives store a derivative of the last and the current value, and Absolutes store values which reset after each reading." I dont really understand what a GAUGE is, but thats not what you are asking. A COUNTER seems... counter-intuitive to me, because that means people logging in and out would be graphed in an ever increasing number (600 people logged in today, 600 tomorrow, the graph would then show 1200? this doesn't seem to be appropriate). It seems to me that the most useful graph would be to see how many logins/logouts/disconnects and connects happen over time, and that seems to me to be an Absolute report. However, I believe that you understand this stuff better, so you may have more insight into this than I do. micah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
