[Mimedefang] RE: Graphdefang question

[John Kirkland]

If you specify your events explicitly ('spam', 'virus',
'suspicious_chars', 'etc') then they will always show up in the same order
and same colors in the graph and legend.

Regards,
John

> With graphdefang, would there be a way on line graphs to assign the colors
> for various things?
>
> I'm looking at my "All Total Counts per Hour" graph and the colors of the
> lines change depending on which things actually exist.  Normally, we get a
> red line for Mail_in (total), green for spam and blue for virus.  But if
> there's any "suspicious_chars", they become blue and make viruses yellow.
> The legend at the bottom explains it all, but pointy-haired types don't read
> legends, if you know what I mean :-) (if you don't, see www.dilbert.com)
>
> I'd like to have a way to specify that I want it to graph "All" but force
> the order and perhaps change the colors.  PHB wants virus line to be red
> ("because they're bad"), spam to be yellow ("slows things down") and total
> to be green.  Others should show up if present, but color doesn't matter.
>
>  -- Dave Williss