From: Sebastian Harl Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:12:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: contrib/README: Updated information about collection.cgi. X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.1.0~28^2^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fb30eb66bae170357dc3b568ff1934ad9ed2c2d;p=collectd.git contrib/README: Updated information about collection.cgi. The list of required Perl modules has been updated and some instructions how to install the script have been added. Also a note about the config file required since version 4 has been added. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README index ab3c9781..cb6df018 100644 --- a/contrib/README +++ b/contrib/README @@ -24,8 +24,19 @@ several PNG files which are graphs of the RRD files found. collection.cgi -------------- - Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl module `RRDs' is -needed (Debian package `librrds-perl'). + Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl modules `RRDs' +(Debian package `librrds-perl'), `URI:Escape' (package liburi-perl), +`HTML::Entities' (package libhtml-parser-perl) and a CGI capable web server +(e.g. apache2 or boa) are needed. Simply install the script to a place where +the webserver will treat it as a CGI script (/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ by default) and +visit that page in a browser (http://localhost/cgi-bin/collection.cgi by +default). Please refer to your webserver's documentation for more details. + + Starting with version 4, collection.cgi requires a small config file, which +should look something like this: + + datadir: "/var/lib/collectd/rrd/" + libdir: "/usr/lib/collectd/" extractDS.px ------------