README.Debian: Updated description of collectd2html.pl.

Added a note about how to get collectd2html.pl working with version 4 of
collectd.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 63086be25941e82dc34a41288b8a237810eca7cd..4c22f5edcdb0546be2528b5ab41148f56b1bb16d 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ solutions are welcome.
   "/var/lib/collectd/" and generate a static HTML file and a directory
   containing several PNG files which are graphs of the RRD files found.
 
+  This script was intended to be used with version 3 of collectd but still
+  seems to be in use by some people. To get it working with version 4, you
+  have to call it once for each subdirectory containing RRD files. A sample
+  wrapper might look like this:
+
+    for dir in /var/lib/collectd/rrd/$hostname/*; do
+        out_dir=`basename "$dir"`
+        mkdir -p $out_dir
+        ( cd $out_dir && collectd2html.pl --data-dir="$dir" )
+    done
+
 - collection.cgi: Sample CGI script that creates graphs on the fly. The Perl
   modules "RRDs" (package librrds-perl), "URI:Escape" (package liburi-perl),
   "HTML::Entities" (package libhtml-parser-perl) and a CGI capable web server

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d5056321fb010574e5150b6eaa1a3875d2942a25..cab9a417989f6c280f38b5203e121bac5d5bcb8d 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ collectd (4.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * Include collection3 in /usr/share/doc/collectd/examples/:
     - Updated README.Debian to point the collection3's README.
     - Added libconfig-general-perl to the suggested packages.
+  * README.Debian: Added a note about how to get collectd2html.pl working with
+    version 4 of collectd.
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:27:56 +0200
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:44:43 +0200
 
 collectd (4.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low