Ah! Thanks for pointing that out. I should have looked closer at the
sample file, I read the man pages too much ;)
Alan
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Ken McDonell wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Alan Bailey wrote:
>
> > > Could you please send me your /var/pcp/config/pmlogger/control.cluster
> > > file as an attachment so I can check for whitespace strangeness?
>
> Whitespace is not the problem, but the version is.
>
> You need this line in the start of control.cluster
>
> $version=1.1
>
> The man page for pmlogger_check(1) fails to mention this, but the
> sample we ship in /var/pcp/config/pmlogger/control includes
> this and the preceding comment ...
>
> # DO NOT REMOVE OR EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINE
>
> Sorry.
>
> The reasons for this are not quite lost in the mists of antiquity, but
> relate to an earlier version of the control file (long before any open
> source release) that did not include a version number and did not
> include the "socks" field ... for backwards compatibility, the simplest
> solution was
> - expect a $version line, else no $version line means version 1.0
>
> I'll fix the man page for the next release.
>
> ps. Mike Gigante, could you please check this in the PCP_UAG book.
>
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Alan Bailey
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