Try `chmod 640 smokeping-secrets && chown apache:apache smokeping-secrets`.
I believe it will be rejected if it has permissions that are too open. Also it is read by the web server. I would change my apache user and group to smokeping to avoid those confusing details. On Jun 26, 2014 1:32 AM, "Türker Karatepe" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I’m beginner on Smokeping and have some trouble with permission while > building Master/Slave communication. I can’t find the solution and i’m > looking for help :) > > > > I have a Master and its hostname Smokeping-Master. Fping, Dns, Curl, > Radius and Ftp Probes works on it. The Slave (Smokeping-Slave) has just > Fping and it works also. Both have same operating system Ubuntu 14.04 LTS > (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64). I’ll explain my steps at the below. > > > > Configuration from Master; > > > > 1- Slaves file; > > > > root@Smokeping-Master:/etc/smokeping/config.d# vi Slaves > > *** Slaves *** > > secrets=/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets > > > > + Smokeping-Slave > > display_name=Smokeping-Slave > > location=Atakoy > > color=ffff00 > > > > 2- smokeping-secrets file > > > > Smokeping-Slave:AndItsPassword > > > > 3- smokeping-secrets permissions > > > > root@Smokeping-Master:/etc/smokeping# stat smokeping_secrets > > File: ‘smokeping_secrets’ > > Size: 27 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 > regular file > > Device: fc00h/64512d Inode: 2885373 Links: 1 > > Access: (0440/-r--r-----) Uid: ( 105/smokeping) Gid: ( 113/smokeping) > > Access: 2014-06-26 10:08:45.776143807 +0300 > > Modify: 2014-06-26 10:08:45.776143807 +0300 > > Change: 2014-06-26 10:21:35.972115431 +0300 > > Birth: - > > > > 4- Targets file > > > > + RootDNS > > probe = FPing > > title = Root DNS ICMP Latency > > menu = Root DNS ICMP Latency > > *slaves = Smokeping-Slave* > > > > Configuration from Slave; > > > > 1- First created secret.txt file at /var/smokeping and stats for > this files and the below and its empty > > > > root@Smokeping-Slave:/var# stat smokeping > > File: ‘smokeping’ > > Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory > > Device: fc00h/64512d Inode: 1835652 Links: 2 > > Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > > Access: 2014-06-26 11:01:20.583395412 +0300 > > Modify: 2014-06-26 10:20:03.707319328 +0300 > > Change: 2014-06-26 10:20:03.707319328 +0300 > > Birth: - > > > > root@Smokeping-Slave:/var/smokeping# stat secret.txt > > File: ‘secret.txt’ > > Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty > file > > Device: fc00h/64512d Inode: 1836169 Links: 1 > > Access: (0770/-rwxrwx---) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > > Access: 2014-06-25 16:55:12.489393588 +0300 > > Modify: 2014-06-25 16:54:31.757392337 +0300 > > Change: 2014-06-25 16:55:04.681393348 +0300 > > Birth: - > > > > 2- Last step and permission error at this step. > > > > root@Smokeping-Slave:/# cd /usr/sbin/ > > root@Smokeping-Slave:/usr/sbin# ./smokeping --master-url=http://”Master’s > IP”/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi \ > > > --cache-dir=/var/smokeping/ \ > > > --shared-secret=/var/smokeping/secret.txt > > *WARNING: Opening secrets file /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets: > Permission denied* > > > > ERROR: we did not get config from the master. Maybe we are not configured > as a slave for any of the targets on the master ? > > > > Best Regards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > >
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