Why does RRD have to be enabled for Mail Report?

[newbieuser1234]

I'm using 2.1 nano.  I run snort, which is working ok so far.  Why do I need to have RRD enabled? I thought RRD and nano was a "no no".  I just want a daily email of snort activity.  Maybe I need to go for the full install if I want to run snort…

[jimp]

That's probably a remnant of when that package used to only support sending RRD files.

RRD on Nano is fine, the RRD data is held in a RAM disk so it is only written to storage during a clean shutdown/reboot when it is archived. (Or if you setup a periodic backup)

[newbieuser1234]

Thanks Jim. That answers my question. As long as I can run it on nano that's awesome.

[jimp]

I just pushed an update to the mail reports package to get rid of that redirect (except on the page where you actually try to add an RRD graph…)

[newbieuser1234]

you have the ability to push out updates to live installs? Cool.

[jimp]

No, I updated the package in the repository – you still have to manually go and nudge it to update from System > Packages.

[newbieuser1234]

Do you do that under "reinstall package"?

[jimp]

Yes just click the 'pkg' button

[newbieuser1234]

thanks