Yup it's the good ol' SELinux issue ;-) I wish someone can write a SELinux rule so that we don't need to outright disable it. Anyways, thanks for reporting back. Cheers, Bernard
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Martin Sent: Mon 12/06/2006 19:39 To: David Martin Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] no graphs! -- rrdtool: permission denied (onRHEL 4) SELinux was getting in the way. The "solution" I found was to turn off SELinux for httpd, as suggested in: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#using-s-c- securitylevel The following line in /var/log/messages (which I really should have noticed immediately) was reporting the problem: Jun 12 22:19:53 vca1 kernel: audit(1150165193.088:1516): avc: denied { execute } for pid=25575 comm="sh" name="rrdtool" dev=dm-0 ino=9126034 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t tcontext=root:object_r:usr_t tclass=file On Jun 12, 2006, at 9:22 PM, David Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > In /var/log/httpd/error_log, I get lines like the following when I > try to load the ganglia web page. There appears to be one line per > graph. > > sh: /usr/local/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool: Permission denied > > None of the graphs show up in the webpage. > The rrdtool executable as well as all parent directories are world > readable and executable. > gmetad is running in its default configuration as nobody. > I'm using the standard Apache installation in RHEL 4, which has php > enabled. > I did change RRDTOOL in /var/www/html/ganglia/conf.php to /usr/local/ > rrdtool/bin/rrdtool. > I can run rrdtool from an unprivileged account with no problem. > > Any idea what's going on? > > dm > > ps. versions: > RHEL 4 > rrdtool 1.2.13 (default installation into /usr/local from source) > ganglia-gmetad-3.0.3-1.fc4.i386.rpm > ganglia-web-3.0.3-1.fc4.i386.rpm > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
