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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif";
color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">How can I tell if it’s running under UID or GID? I never had a problem before with this running. I’m running this under root on both master and slave
server. Secrets.conf is owned by root user and group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alter3d@alter3d.ca]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 03, 2009 15:25<br>
<b>To:</b> Eric Chatham<br>
<b>Cc:</b> smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [smokeping-users] Slave cannot open Secrets file (Permisson Denied)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I suspect it's a file ownership problem.<br>
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Is smokeping running with UID root or GID root (the two conditions which would allow it to access that file given the ownership and permissions)? Most installations of smokeping run under non-privileged UID/GID for security.
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Eric Chatham wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif"">Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif"">I had this working at one time with giving the secrets file 640 permissions. Our hardware failed on our Linux server, so I had to re-install all our applications from
a backup. One of the apps was smokeping. I re-installed the program and just restored the configs from the backup.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif"">Can someone tell me why I’m now having a problem on the slave server trying to open the secrets.conf file on the master server? I keep getting this error:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">WARNING: Opening secrets file /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf: Permission denied</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">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 ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif"">Here is my secrets.conf stat:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">stat secrets.conf
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> File: `secrets.conf'</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"> Size: 56 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 4423683 Links: 1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Access: 2009-11-03 13:21:26.000000000 -0600</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Modify: 2009-11-02 15:06:10.000000000 -0600</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Change: 2009-11-03 13:36:58.000000000 -0600</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Eric Chatham</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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