<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>OK I can say it is working under RH EL5.</div><div>What I did was to manually unpack the RPM and to copy the files in a subdirectory where I have full access</div><div>The next step was to use the perl directive "use lib" to point the perl script to that path. It worked with </div><div>perl-rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.i386.rpm </div><div><br></div><div>Next I tried higher versions because I need the "--no-border" and some other things which seem to be available </div><div>only in later versions (haven't checked the linux version but the windows version I am using rejects the -no-border</div><div>switch)</div><div>I have tried -no-border on Ubuntu and it is not working in version 1.30.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, no matter what which version I try between 1.2.30 and 1.3.9
(RPMs) I am receiving the same message which is</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA">Can't load
'/home/username/html/Others/rrdtools/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so'
for module RRDs: librrd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line
230.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>at script.pl line 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA">Compilation failed in require at script.pl line 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Can anybody tell me what makes the 1.0..5 works and what makes all the other higher version fail?</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I also tried to install the binaries, I am OK if I can create script that I can put in crontab and generate the images with rrdtool 1.3.9 while I am updating the database with 1.050. Would this work?</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">The binary distribution seems to have some problems with loading the libraries. Does anybody know how to load the libraries if the are not installer in
/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib ?</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I also tried <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path PATH EXECUTABLE</span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space:
pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This somehow change something but I don't know enough about Unix to say what exactly changed. Please see below</span></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><div>[user@p3nlh047 bin]$ ./rrdtool</div><div>./rrdtool: error while loading shared libraries: librrd.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory</div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div>[user@p3nlh047 bin]$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path . rrdtools</div><div>rrdtools: error while loading shared libraries: rrdtools: cannot open shared object file</div><div>[cristip@p3nlh047 bin]$</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div>PF</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div></span></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br></span></font><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Simon Hobson
<linux@thehobsons.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, January 9, 2010 12:27:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [rrd-users] RRDTools Server and Installing RRDTools in a shared hosting environment<br></font><br>AllSort ofQuestions wrote:<br><br>>I have two questions somehow related to each other. I asking these <br>>questions because apparently I can't run rrdtools in a shared hosted <br><span>>envirionmnet. (Linux-REd Hat @Godaddy <a target="_blank" href="http://www.godaddy.com">www.godaddy.com</a>)</span><br>>From what I could see they have perl available for their clients but <br>>only a limited set of modules, probably the most popular ones, are <br>>installed and you can not install your own.<br><br>You are unlikely to be able to run any software not already <br>supported. On a
typical shared web hosting service, the server hosts <br>multiple sites all using a common set of software. Whilst I believe <br>it should be technically possible to install your own binaries in <br>your own storage space, in practice I would expect most shared <br>hosting providers to prohibit this (either in their ToS or by <br>technical restrictions - typically the server would be configured to <br>not execute binaries outside of certain system wide shared <br>directories) and this would impact on their more expensive services <br>they'd rather you buy if you want to do this.<br><br>In my limited experience, the larger the hosting company, the less <br>likely they are to be able to accommodate you - with only smaller <br>companies with manually (or semi manually) managed servers having the <br>capability.<br><br>Have you tried asking GoDaddy if they have a server with RRD Tools <br>installed that they could move your site to ?<br><br>-- <br>Simon
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