The file needs to be readable by the user that Smokeping is running as on the master. If the file is owned by root and you set permissions 0440 on it, then the Smokeping user can't read it.

You should change the ownersip of the file so that your Smokeping user can read it; for example, if Smokeping runs as _smokeping, you could do:

chown _smokeping:root /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets
chmod 0660 /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets

- Peter


On 6/18/2011 6:33 AM, Joakim Westin wrote:
Hi, I'm a SmokePing beginner.

I have gotten as far as to setup three machines. One as master
(master) and two slaves. I have configured my Targets file and added
the slaves. I set the permission on the file
/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets as follows:

sudo chmod 0440 /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets

then I start SmokePing

sudo service smokeping restart

On the slave I then execute this:

/usr/sbin/smokeping --master-url=http://master/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
--cache-dir=/var/smokeping/ --shared-secret=/var/smokeping/secret.txt
-debug

and I get this error:

WARNING: Opening secrets file /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets:
Permission denied

If I change the permission on the file
/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets on the master (while SMokePing is
running) :

sudo chmod 0444 /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets

It works at the slave. But after a while SmokePing complains that the
file is world readable...

I understand that the file shouldn't be world readable... but since I
am no good at Python and Linux permissions I really need help with
this!

Can anyone give me a clue as to how the permissions should be set for
the master/slave to work OK?

I am doing this with 2.004002 and Perl v5.10.1 on Ubuntu 11.04

Cheers,
Joakim

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