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["Stevens, Cody" <cody.stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,  not sure of the best way to submit a minor change like this but I was having some issues  with Graphite not being able to find and open my database that I was able to fix with a minor code change.

Our installation uses a number of custom directories that are not the default for the graphite installation.   I was using the local_settings.py file to set all of the custom directories etc. but the locations of the WHISPER_DIR and RRD_DIR.  Were not updating correctly.  I looked at the settings.py file and can see that these are initialized depending on whether rrdtool imports successfully or not.

Moving the following code to run after importing  the local_settings fixed it for me.
try:
  import rrdtool
  DATA_DIRS = [WHISPER_DIR, RRD_DIR]
except:
  DATA_DIRS = [WHISPER_DIR]



It looks like nothing of but variable initialization occurs prior to this code so changing it to import rrdtool after getting my custom settings fixes the issue.

#Pull in overrides from local_settings.py
try:
  from graphite.local_settings import *
except ImportError:
  print >> sys.stderr, "Could not import graphite.local_settings, using defaults!"

try:
  import rrdtool
  DATA_DIRS = [WHISPER_DIR, RRD_DIR]
except:
  DATA_DIRS = [WHISPER_DIR]


Thanks for an  awesome tool!  Hopefully, I am not spamming you.

Cody Stevens
RightNow Technologies