if you look in the man page for rrdgraph it will explain that you can substitute the filename with a - if you want to display an image to stdout.
here is an example: rrdtool graph - \ --start ${RRDDATE} \ --title "${TITLE}" \ --vertical-label load_time \ --imginfo '<IMG SRC="img/%s" WIDTH="%lu" HEIGHT="%lu" ALT="Day">'\ --imgformat PNG \ DEF:about=${DBPATH}/${NUMBER}.rrd:about_time:AVERAGE \ DEF:faq=${DBPATH}/${NUMBER}.rrd:faq_time:AVERAGE \ DEF:error=${DBPATH}/${NUMBER}.rrd:error_code:AVERAGE \ CDEF:v_error=error,-.1,LT,error,0,IF \ CDEF:slow_load=faq,19.99,GT,faq,0,IF \ HRULE:20#FF69B4:"Threshold" \ AREA:faq#00FF00:"faq page" \ AREA:about#0000FF:"about page" \ AREA:v_error#FF0000:"error" \ AREA:slow_load#00FFFF:"Slow Load"\\c \ COMMENT:About-page\ \ COMMENT:Average\: GPRINT:about:AVERAGE:%6.3lf%s \ COMMENT:Min\: GPRINT:about:MIN:%6.3lf%s \ COMMENT:Max\: GPRINT:about:MAX:%6.3lf%s\\c \ COMMENT:Faq-page\ \ COMMENT:Average\: GPRINT:faq:AVERAGE:%6.3lf%s \ COMMENT:Min\: GPRINT:faq:MIN:%6.3lf%s \ COMMENT:Max\: GPRINT:faq:MAX:%6.3lf%s\\c HTH, ReedK -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:31 AM To: rrd-users@list.ee.ethz.ch Subject: [rrd-users] Graphing to STDOUT Is there any way to output the raw binary jpeg/png/gif data generated by RRDTOOL to stdout? This way I could pipe it into a script for use on the web. Thanks! Jeff -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi