What's the matter with Spine or Rrdtool?

[tracky2007]

I download a TCP-connections templates at http://forums.cacti.net/about12787.html

And i got the right output at cacti-server console just like:
cacti@Cacti-Monitor:/usr/local/apache/htdocs/cacti> perl -w /usr/local/apache/htdocs/cacti/scripts/lvm_netstat_tcp.pl 118.0.193.11 2 public 161 500
established:92 listen:22 timewait:86 timeclose:0 finwait1:0 finwait2:86 synsent:0 synrecv:0 closewait:0

But at cacti.log,i found this:
SPINE: Poller[0] Host[13] DS[1297] SCRIPT: perl -w /usr/local/apache/htdocs/cacti/scripts/lvm_netstat_tcp.pl 118.0.193.11 2 public 161 500, output: established:0 listen:0 timewait:0 timeclose:0 finwait1:0 finwait2:0 synsent:0 synrecv:0 closewait:0

so i got all zero output at graph *_*

how can i solved this problem?
Somebody help me!please

I used cacti0.87d+rrdtool1.3.6+spine0.87c+PLA2.4

[Howie]

Seems like a problem with the script, not the poller. It's running but returning zero.

When you tested it from the command-line, did you test it as the user that cacti runs as? If it's using /proc and the cacti user can't look in there (for example), then you will probably have issues like this.

In fact, it looks like there are plenty of people in the thread you posted who hae had problems like this - did you read the whole thread?

[tracky2007]

thanks for your replay!
And i run this scripts within cacti user on server consloe.
I can't figure out the way to solve this problem,can u just give me some advice to check?
thank you very much~~~

[gandalf]

This is a BAD script. I know, because I wrote it. On servers with many connections, it merely lasts forever. My advise: drop it.
Reinhard