hello. May i ask for help in here , regarding the connect() command ? You might want a C prorgamming channel instead. ok, i will do this. thx, bye lol wtf Does cacti calculate total data transfer as an approximation of the bandwidth being used at 5 minute intervals? it should be pretty exact it reads the counters, stores the number, waits five minutes, reads the counter again, subtracts, resulting in bits/bytes transferred in the last five minutes zeshoem: jlgaddis : yes, pretty much anyone here familiar with the workings of cacti and cron? I cant seem to get my cron job to work will the cacti polling software