Noob Centos Admin wrote:
downloaded jrrd but it refuses to ./configure because it cannot find rrd_create
yum install rrdtool but there was no rrd_create
well, i note there's a few versions of rrdtool in the various repositories. the stock CentOS 5 version 9from upstream) is 1.2.30, while rpmforge has 1.3.7, also a seperate rrdutils package (I have no idea whats in it)
# yum list rrd* ... Installed Packages rrdtool.i386 1.2.30-1.el5.rf installed Available Packages rrdtool.i386 1.3.7-1.el5.rf rpmforge rrdtool-devel.i386 1.3.7-1.el5.rf rpmforge rrdtool-doc.i386 1.2.27-3.el5 epel rrdtool-ruby.i386 1.2.27-3.el5 epel rrdutils.noarch 5.2.1-1.el5.rf rpmforge
and, yes, the 1.2.30 version does not seem to have rrd_create...
# rpm -ql rrdtool /usr/bin/rrdcgi /usr/bin/rrdtool /usr/bin/rrdupdate /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 /usr/lib/librrd.so.2.0.15 /usr/lib/librrd_th.so.2 /usr/lib/librrd_th.so.2.0.13 /usr/share/doc/rrdtool-1.2.30 ...(bunch of share/doc files deleted)>... /usr/share/man/man1/bin_dec_hex.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/cdeftutorial.1.gz ....(bunch of share/man pages deletged too0 /usr/share/rrdtool /usr/share/rrdtool/examples ...some examples deleted...
HOWEVER< I note that the rrdtool command has...
# rrdtool --help RRDtool 1.2.30 Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker tobi@oetiker.ch Compiled Feb 20 2009 18:18:07
Usage: rrdtool [options] command command_options
Valid commands: create, update, updatev, graph, dump, restore, last, lastupdate, first, info, fetch, tune, resize, xport ...
a CREATE subcommand!