So, there's an apt-get package? The installation page didn't indicate that as I
was following the install guide from there.
I started with getting the 2.6.11 tarball, but I'm leaving that behind for use
of the apt-get package.
Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day.
From: Gregory Sloop [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 5:32 PM
To: Ben Wright <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with
configuring it
So, I still have almost none of information I asked for:
Given what you've said, I *assume* you didn't install using apt-get [i.e. a
package.]
If you didn't, you don't get ANY of the helps that a package does - like
creating the users and groups - like the "smokeping" user/group. [So you'll
have to do it yourself.] This is also a good reason to stay fairly current in
your distro. [Is 10.04 still supported? I guess it might be - but the version
of SP on 10.04 is going to be pretty old.]
12.04 or 14.04 have fairly current versions of SP. [I use both, and have SP
running on several installations in both versions.]
The daemon [when in debug mode], will be running as whomever you are logged in
as. I'd assume you're not running as root, so it's likely you won't have
permissions.
--
1) A debug log would be good. :)
2) We'd also like to know what distribution and version, and how you installed
SP. [Sources or packages?]
3) Perhaps strip the log-file to minimums - and if it doesn't work, post the
[minimum] config.
We've got #1, but not #2 or #3.
---
As noted in a post I just made - this really looks like a "lack of experience"
problem. While I really do sympathize - there's not a lot I can do to ease the
pain of learning. [Short of a *lot* of hand-holding - which I don't have time
to do, and which is pretty costly in terms of lost time/earnings for me.]
Get a good linux book. Do a bunch of googling - it's just going to take a lot
of time and effort. A good in-person class _might_ be helpful - but those can
be dicey.
Good luck. I'm glad to try to keep helping - but I only have so much
time/energy.
-Greg
I'm most certain it's not a problem with smokeping itself, just my lack of
comprehension on the FAQ which I did read.
This is on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I know I should have included that in the first
message.
The following is what happens when I try and start it in debug mode. Apparently
I need to change the owner of the /opt/smokeping folder to something so that
the daemon can write in there? I'm not clear on what the daemon runs as.
Log:
### Compiling alert detector pattern 'someloss'
### >0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%
sub {
my $d = shift;
my $y = $d->{loss};
for(1){
my $imax2 = min(@$y - 3, 12);
my $imax1 = min(@$y - 3, 12);
my $minlength = 3;
my $maxlength = 27;
next if scalar @$y < $minlength ;
my $i1;
for($i1=0; $i1 < min($maxlength,$imax1); $i1++){
my $i2;
for($i2=0; $i2 < min($maxlength-$i1,$imax2); $i2++){
next unless defined $y->[-3-$i1-$i2]
and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] =~ /^\d/
and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] > 0
; last;
}
return 0 if $i2 >= min($maxlength-$i1-$i2,$imax2);
next unless defined $y->[-2-$i1]
and $y->[-2-$i1] =~ /^\d/
and $y->[-2-$i1] > 0
; last;
}
return 0 if $i1 >= min($maxlength-$i1,$imax1);
next unless defined $y->[-1]
and $y->[-1] =~ /^\d/
and $y->[-1] > 0
; return 1;
}
return 0;
}
ERROR: mkdir /opt/smokeping/data/Test: Permission denied
When I try to change ownership with chown for the /opt/smokeping/data folder to
smokeping:www-data I get invalid user 'smokeping:www-data'
From: Gregory Sloop [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:43 PM
To: Ben Wright <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with
configuring it
See the FAQ. Honestly, it solves like 90% of the questions.
https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/wiki/FAQ
Also, selinux and/or the Ubuntu/debian equivalent. [I can't ever remember the
name] They can cause lots of problems. Set them as permissive, or completely
disable them. Once you've got a working setup, you can turn them back on and
tweak as needed.
As an feeble attempt to offer a suggestion, given the paucity of data from you:
Can the user who started SP in debug mode create these directories/files from a
manual command line (i.e. mkdir -p /opt/smokeping/data/test)? If not, then it's
a permissions problem, not a smokeping problem.
If the above doesn't help: [But really, follow the docs and the FAQ. Do a
search on the mailing list archives. You'll almost certainly find a similar
situation and fix there.]
1) A debug log would be good. :)
2) We'd also like to know what distribution and version, and how you installed
SP. [Sources or packages?]
3) Perhaps strip the log-file to minimums - and if it doesn't work, post the
[minimum] config.
[You'll have to provide a lot more detail than you've done for us to help you.]
-Greg
I left out that I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
From: smokeping-users
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Ben Wright
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:26 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring
it
I'm stuck with permissions and whichever folders. So far I've got it compiled
and all modules included, but when I go to start the daemon in debug mode, it
stops at the point where it is trying to make the /opt/smokeping/data/test
directory with a permission denied notice.
I'm also confused on what needs to happen to get the web interface working.
Looking forward to using this product, once I get it configured correctly.
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