Hi there, On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Barry von Tobel wrote:
> I'm trying to run smokeping on my 10.04 LTS computer but the images > don't show up. Nothing is shown on Firefox, and Chrome only shows the > image outline and time axis information. Below is a 'copy url' from Chrome. > > http://localhost/cache/smokeping/ima...1283768820.png You're new to this, aren't you? :) We've all been there, and it's very confusing until you start to get everything in all the right pigeonholes. The URI you sent is no good to anyone except you. It's a path on your local machine, and that path/image won't exist on anyone else's machine. You need to put the image file where we can get at it. Photobucket? There are two ways to install most packages. The way provided by the author of the package, and the way provided by your particular Linux distribution's package manager. Your Linux distribution is Ubuntu, but you haven't said if you used the Ubuntu package manager or not. I guess you did. Unfortunately people take religious views about where things should go in the filesystem. That means that the author of a package might use use one "filesystem hierarchy standard" (FHS) and the distributions's package manager might use another. If, for example, the author says in his documentation after installing the package according to *his* instructions you must edit the file /usr/bin/smokeping but the package manager for your distribution puts smokeping in /usr/sbin/ then things can get a bit confusing. I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what the package management system and the installer will have done. I'd have thought that they ought to have set up everything correctly for you but it seems like they haven't. Probably there are some things you still need to do that the installer can't know how to do, and probably those things are documented in some sensible place such as at a wild guess /usr/share/doc/smokeping/ You need to find out where the documentation is normally expected to be found after you install a package using Ubuntu's package manager, so you can always read it when you need to answer questions like this. "Playing around with pathnames" will not work, and will usually just get you deeper in the mire. Have you done what it says you need to do in the docs? If you don't know what I'm talking about, take some time off and read them: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html In a vanilla installation (i.e. if you downloaded the package from the Smokeping Website and installed it yourself, not using the Ubuntu package manager to download and install an Ubuntu-packaged version) you would have to set up a couple of paths in the file .../smokeping unfortunately I don't know the full path to .../smokeping on Ubuntu, someone on the list almost certainly will. Try logging in as root and type which smokeping At another wild guess this will give you something like /usr/sbin/smokeping so then type perldoc /usr/sbin/smokeping and read the instructions about editing that file which are given in the file. Save a copy of anything you edit, I would usually copy and edit it like so: cd /path/to/smokeping cp -p smokeping smokeping.original chmod a-w smokeping.original chattr +i smokeping.original emacs smokeping Obviously you will want to use your favourite editor, not mine. :) If all else fails you might try Google to search the Ubuntu users' mailing list archives for information about Smokeping, I'm sure that this will have come up before. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
