> # /etc/init.d/unbound > unbound [start|stop|force-reload|restart|status|dump|show|mrtg|cricket|cacti] It's me, again :) If so, I want to add one public request for cacti. As I mentioned to Wouter before, cacti waits for input in this datastructure (in one string) <fieldname_1>:<value_1> <fieldname_2>:<value_2> ... <fieldname_n>:<value_n> (http://docs.cacti.net/?q=node/26) In our example it can be like: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/unbound cacti thread0.num.queries:1234 thread0.requestlist.exceeded:0 thread1.num.queries:1345 etc... But, in general, key=value format will be enough... Only, befor to feed it to cacti, it should be processed into right format using sed/awk/etc Good luck Wouter!