On 4/17/2018 9:17 AM, Galen Johnson wrote:

Another option would be to use string concatenation; such as:

TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree" TEST2RRD+=",memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp" TEST2RRD+=",time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache"

Ok, this is cool. I never suspected this would work. There's that big warning at the top of the file:

NB : Even though it might look like a shell-script, it is NOT.

so it has never been clear to me what parsed these files.

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