On 7/30/2013 12:02 AM, Janos SUTO wrote:
On 2013-07-30 06:18, Michael Wessel wrote:
OK, here goes: Most of the hoops were my own fault (the major one
being that I had SELinux enabled without realizing it for some time
which resulted in all sorts of strange behavior...)
I'll include in the docs to disable SElinux on CentOS/Redhat. Or it
would be great if you had the chance to figure out some selinux rules
to make piler work with it without disabling it.
Unfortunately I'm no good with SELinux... But I should probably sit down
and learn it and figure this out. I'll update this if I actually manage
to do this in the near future.
I did a fresh install of CentOS6.4 Minimum install, so what I was
missing is based on that install.
I used the PDF documentation from the website which I later saw
seems dated. The requirements have changed some compared to the
on-line documentation and there is no reference to the helpful "make
postinstall" in the PDF. So updating the PDF would be a good thing.
yes, it's in my head for a long time. I'll remove it until it's updated.
I installed epel and rpmforge repos and then used the following yum
to install all the dependencies I was missing (I pieced this together
through several compile attempts):
yum install man vim telnet net-snmp cronie sysstat rsync ntp wget
make gcc db4-devel patch zip unzip mysql mysql-server mysql-devel
gcc-devel php php-xml php-mysql libzip libzip-devel tre tre-devel
tcp_wrappers tcp_wrappers-libs tcp_wrappers-devel catdoc unrtf poppler
poppler-devel
thanks, I'll add this to the install docs.
I did an rpm install of sphinx and had to edit
/usr/local/src/piler-0.1.23/init.d/rc.searchd and change
## Change the line (line 10):
su piler -c '/usr/local/bin/searchd'
##to this
su piler -c '/usr/bin/searchd'
perhaps it's better to specify on "su piler -c searchd" only, and add
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin to the beginning of the script.
yes, that sounds like a better solution.
After that I had 2 other gotchas. One was that I had to create
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/piler.conf and add to it: /usr/local/lib
Then run ldconfig
hmm, isn't /usr/local/lib in the default path?
not on Centos 6.4 at least:
echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
so that could be added to the install script
Finally in /usr/local/etc/piler.conf I had to set the database host
to 127.0.0.1 (as opposed to localhost). Using localhost piler was not
able to connect to the database. Haven't looked into that yet to find
I think because the default path to socket (mysqlsocket) is
/tmp/mysql.sock.
Try fixing it, and it will work. Perhaps it' enough to set it to empty
string and it will use the mysql library default, ie.
mysqlsocket=
Great, that did indeed handle it (an empty string).
out why. Probably a permission problem since localhost will use a
socket and 127.0.0.1 TCP/IP.
At that point everything started working.
great!
Thanks very much for this, I'll play around with both and see what
will work out best once I have a substantial amount of mail in the
archive (which won't take very long).
And a minor issue - the health monitor permanently shows a red bar
and no text for the CPU usage. The cron job is set up and seem
%guest %idle
09:09:09 PM all 0.23 0.00 0.10 0.58
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.09
fix the cron entry to extract the last value, so change $11 to eg. $12
(not sure, the lines are wrapped in my mailer)
Hm, that's what it was set to originally ($11) and it does return the
%idle value and saves it to /var/piler/stat/cpu.stat:
Some digging found that the problem was that the value simply wasn't
being read. The /var/piler directory had a 700 permission set, not sure
why but changing that to 755 resolved this.
And one additional minor thing, the SMTP Status shows "piler: Error"
even though it's running. I do have it listen on a port other than 25,
is that why?
set the correct port in config-site.php:
$config['PILER_PORT'] = 1234;
Thanks, that handled it.
Janos
I know I keep tagging on to this, but one more question came up. I was
looking at the archive size reported which is currently at 1612.5MB.
du -sh /var/piler reports 1005MB and the MySQL database is only 20MB.
Where does the rather significant difference come in?
Michael
