symon creating dates in year 31900

[Dan Langille]

Anyone using syutils/symon?

I noticed this problem today after installing symon on a 6.2 box

# mkdir ~/tmp
# cd ~/tmp
# /usr/local/share/symon/c_smrrds.sh cpu0
cpu0.rrd created
# rrdtool info  cpu0.rrd | head
filename = "cpu0.rrd"
rrd_version = "0003"
step = 5
last_update = 944503401600


Notice the date, that's a bit odd:

# date -r 944503401600
Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 PST 31900


This was with rrdtool-1.2.19_1 on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6: Fri Feb  9 
15:54:22 PST 2007



On another system, with a slightly different rrdtoo, I get better results:

# /usr/local/share/symon/c_smrrds.sh cpu0
cpu0.rrd created
# rrdtool info cpu0.rrd | head
filename = "cpu0.rrd"
rrd_version = "0003"
step = 5
last_update = 1171429200
# date -r 1171429200
Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2007

Now that's something a little more reasonable.

Does anyone get similar results?

Failing a solution, does anyone know how to reset the last_update field in 
an rrd file?

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