Cheshire Cat Computing

How do I change the description in the left hand menu for groups of routers? For example, I have grouped everything into newyork\*.cfg and california\*.cfg. The grouping works fine, but I can't seem to get the names to work:

[targetnames]
newyork\ = New York
C:\mrtg\bin\california\ = California

I tried it both ways listed above and neither seem to work.

Please note, I am running this on NT/2000.

Thanks!

The second one, but without the trailing slash.

C:\foo\bar = Routers in Bar
C:\mrtg\bin\california = California

Under Windows, make sure you have the correct upper/lower case for the directory names.

Steve

Hmmm, thats what I have now and it still doesn't work.

Is there anything else I need to do?

C:\mrtg\bin\newyork = New York
C:\mrtg\bin\burbank = Burbank

Check that the case is correct -- remember, c:\mrtg\Burbank is not the same as C:\mrtg\burbank when you are using Windows. This is almost certainly the problem.

You can look at the Info pages to see what case the system actually is using. Make sure that your definition of confpath uses the same case -- particularly for the drive letter.

routers.cgi is case-sensitive because it needs to be for UNIX. It might be a good plan for the future if I put in extra code to do a case-insensitive check if it detects a Microsoft operating system ...

Steve

Got it.

The problem was that "C:\" doesn't work, it has to be "c:\".

Thanks.

I'm adding a line to the current version to make a lower-case comparison if running windows. Unfortunately it is a bit difficult to do a completely case-ignored one, since it uses a hashed lookup.

Steve

Hi,

I'm having the same problem and I've checked my case and syntax. Here's what i have in my config:

routers2.cgi version: 2.14b5 (win2000 pro)(I've tried this with 2.13a as well)

confpath = e:\MRTG\mrtg-2.9.22\bin\cfgs


group = yes

[targetnames]

e:\MRTG\mrtg-2.9.22\bin\cfgs = Configs
e:\MRTG\mrtg-2.9.22\bin\cfgs\routers = Routers


In the left column, 'Configs' show up correctly with the files in it's directory but 'Routers' doesn't show up at all.

If I change the config like this...

confpath = e:\MRTG\mrtg-2.9.22\bin\cfgs\routers

...then the 'Routers' directory shows up in the left column but the 'Configs' does not.



Any help would be greatly appreciated,


Steve

What is your cfgfiles?

If you have something like:

confpath = C:\mrtg\FOO
cfgfiles = Abc\*.cfg def\*.cfg

then you need

C:\mrtg\FOO\Abc = ABC routers
C:\mrtg\FOO\def = DEF routers

see how it matches the case in the confpath and cfgfiles.

If you have

cfgfiles = *\*.cfg

then you need to use the 'real' case of the file -- the one you see if you do a dir in the directory. Windows tends to hide the 'real' case when you view it in Explorer.

Windows lack of case sensitivity is a real problem, maybe I'll have to just flatten the case of everything if Windows is detected... this is awkward though for a few reasons down to the code structure.

Steve

Dont forget cfgfiles can be a list, so this is also valid:

cfgfiles = *.cfg */*.cfg

This lets you use the per-user directives to list individual directories or groups of directories for different users (as we do here)

Steve