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The SmokePing poller typically does not run under the Apache user's
context -- it will typically run under its own account (smokeping,
_smokeping, etc), depending on your particular platform and how you've
configured it.<br>
<br>
You should check what user was created during the port install, and set
that user to be the owner of that directory.<br>
<br>
- Peter<br>
<br>
<br>
Kim Ford wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is my first time trying to install
SmokePing. I
installed using ports on a FreeBSD machine to learn.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m getting the following error trying to start
SmokePing:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Starting smokeping.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">### assuming you are using an fping copy
reporting in
milliseconds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ERROR: mkdir
/usr/local/etc/smokeping/tmp/data/mysite2:
Permission denied<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smokeping: WARNING: failed
to start
smokeping<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I created the tmp directory under
/usr/local/etc/smokeping/
for lack of any documentation I could dig up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Permissions on this directory are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@freebsd /usr/local/etc/smokeping]# ls -al
tmp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">total 8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 4 www www 512
Feb 3 00:11 .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Feb 3
00:12 ..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 2 www www 512
Feb 3 00:11 data<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 2 www www 512
Feb 3 00:11 var<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m assuming that smokeping runs under the
Apache www
account. Everything does work if chmod 777 the temp dir, but I don’t
think that’s good practice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What’s the proper permission to set here?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks mucho,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kim<o:p></o:p></p>
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