[hobbit] Rrd not updating

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Charles Goyard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a follow-up to a old question, but we found a solution today :)
>
> Charles Goyard wrote :
> > Everett, Vernon wrote :
> > > All of a sudden, users.rrd, procs.rrd, la.rrd and clock.rrd have
> > > stopped updating.
> > > Actually, it happened on Friday, but I still haven't found the cause.
> >
> > I had the exact same problem on SCO servers a few weeks ago (24th of
> > december, around 6am).
>
> On our setup, the problem comes from a counter overflow in uptime
> handling on some SCO : after 248 days of uptime, the uptime is reported
> negative, and the rrd handler misses the expression (no "up:").
>
> Reboot of the system solves the problem :).

I don't have the luxury of rebooting, so I threw a quick pipe to awk that 
checks for the number of uptime fields...  and adds the 999 for the 'days up' 
field, if that field is missing. I can paste the exact awk command if 
desired.

 ~Steve