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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. <br>
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Eric Chatham wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">WARNING: Opening
secrets file /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf: Permission denied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; 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 ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">Here
is my secrets.conf stat:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">stat secrets.conf
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;"> File: `secrets.conf'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;"> Size: 56
Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">Device: fd00h/64768d
Inode: 4423683 Links: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">Access:
(0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">Access: 2009-11-03
13:21:26.000000000 -0600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">Modify: 2009-11-02
15:06:10.000000000 -0600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Consolas;">Change: 2009-11-03
13:36:58.000000000 -0600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif";">Eric Chatham<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif";">MIS Department<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif";">Phone: (216)
373-4683<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif";">Fax: (216)
373-4669<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif";"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:echatham@broadvox.com">echatham@broadvox.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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