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POWhy doesn't rrdtool generate any PNG output in my Perl CGI program?
 

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    <p>I'm trying to output an image from RRD Tool using Perl. I've posted the relevant part of the CGI script below:</p> <pre><code>sub graph { my $rrd_path = $co-&gt;param('rrd_path'); my $RRD_DIR = "../data/"; #generate a PNG from the RRD my $png_filename = "-"; # a '-' as the filename send the PNG to stdout my $rrd = "$RRD_DIR/$rrd_path"; my $png = `rrdtool graph $png_filename -a PNG -r -l 0 --base 1024 --start -151200 -- vertical-label 'bits per second' --width 500 --height 200 DEF:bytesInPerSec=$rrd:bytesInPerSec:AVERAGE DEF:bytesOutPerSec=$rrd:bytesOutPerSec:AVERAGE CDEF:sbytesInPerSec=bytesInPerSec,8,* CDEF:sbytesOutPerSec=bytesOutPerSec,8,* AREA:sbytesInPerSec#00cf00:AvgIn LINE1:sbytesOutPerSec#002a97:AvgOut VRULE:1246428000#ff0000:`; #print the image header use bytes; print $co-&gt;header(-type=&gt;"image/png",-Content_length=&gt;length($png)); binmode STDOUT; print $png; }#end graph </code></pre> <p>This works fine on the command line (perl graph.cgi > test.png) - commenting out the header, of course, as well as on my Ubuntu 10.04 development machine. However, when I move to the Centos 5 production server, it doesn't, and the browser receives a content-length of 0:</p> <p>Ubuntu 10.04/Apache:</p> <pre><code>Request URL:http://noc-student.nmsu.edu/grasshopper/web/graph.cgi Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK Request Headers Accept:application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Cache-Control:max-age=0 User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.36 Safari/534.7 Response Headers Connection:Keep-Alive Content-Type:image/png Content-length:12319 Date:Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:40:05 GMT Keep-Alive:timeout=15, max=97 Server:Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) </code></pre> <p>And from the Centos 5/Apache Server:</p> <pre><code>Request URL:http://grasshopper-new.nmsu.edu/grasshopper/branches/michael_dev/web/graph.cgi Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK Request Headers Accept:application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Cache-Control:max-age=0 User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.36 Safari/534.7 Response Headers Connection:close Content-Type:image/png Content-length:0 Date:Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:40:32 GMT Server:Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) </code></pre> <p>The <code>use bytes</code> and manual setting of the content length are in there to try to fix the problem, but it's the same without them. Same with setting <code>binmode</code> on STDOUT. The script works fine from the command line on both machines.</p>
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