Today Steve Shipway wrote: > > <ds> > > <name> 1 </name> > > <type> GAUGE </type> > > Not a good idea to call a dataset by a numerical name. This will > confuse all sorts of things in the RPN for a start. Best stick > to alpha. > > In fact, I don?t think you CAN use a numeric name in the normal > APIs, but RRD::Simple seems not to make as many sanity checks...
you can not use numeric names, because this would cause an ambiguity in CDEF expressions. cheers tobi > > Steve > > > Steve Shipway > ITS Unix Services Design Lead > University of Auckland, New Zealand > Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland > Phone: +64 (0)9 3737599 ext 86487 > DDI: +64 (0)9 924 6487 > Mobile: +64 (0)21 753 189 > Email: s.ship...@auckland.ac.nz > ? Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail : > ????????????????? > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
