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Both things should be comparable. The 'comment' is in fact the title from the sub-Target being added as a subheading in the legend of the userdefined graph.
Have you tried the max-title=64 or max-title=128 under 2.20beta5? It may work now as tests have been added in this part as well.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hello Steve ,

[quote="stevesh"]Both things should be comparable. The 'comment' is in fact the title from the sub-Target being added as a subheading in the legend of the userdefined graph.
Have you tried the max-title=64 or max-title=128 under 2.20beta5? It may work now as tests have been added in this part as well.[/quote]

Ok , I think you are saying that 'comment' & 'Title' are the same as far as routers2 & mrtg are concerned ?

Yes I have & it truncates all the lines properly , ie: no more errors .

But I am noticing that the 'string' is Centered in the graph at the top .
ie: "john's very long string" shows up like .
['s very long str]

is this a function of "rrdtool graph" or some other entitiy .

Twyl , JimL

It is a function of the rrdtool graph - the Title is centered at the top. The legends are created separately and left justified, although using the same MRTG parameters. Probably you never need more than about 64 chr in the title anyway... the default is currently to truncate at 128 because the largest graph size might hold this many if they are narrow characters...

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hello Steve , Very good . At least now I know I'll just have to put up with the centering .

My reason for wanting to get a longer string in the 'legend' (for instance) is I have points in the network with little hubs stacked all over the place & I want this to stand out to the viewer like a sore thumb , I do this by collecting all the mac-address's (and other data) associated with a managed switches port & display the collected information in that ports 'legend' . This is what caused this Threads subject matter .

This is where I could very well use "%EXEC()%" functionatlity with all those variables I spoke of in the other thread , Plus those already in the book .

Tnx , JimL