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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Peter,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for this quick response.
I did a quick check and it’s using the (…duh) smokeping user:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[root@freebsd
/usr/local/etc/smokeping/tmp]# ls -la data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>total 10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>drwxrwxrwx 5 www www
512 Feb 3 00:46 .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>drwxrwxrwx 4 www www
512 Feb 3 00:11 ..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www
512 Feb 3 01:11 __sortercache<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www
512 Feb 3 00:42 mysite1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www
512 Feb 3 00:42 mysite2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I appreciate your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Peter Kristolaitis
[mailto:alter3d@alter3d.ca] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kim Ford<br>
<b>Cc:</b> smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [smokeping-users] SmokePing permission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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: <o:p></o:p></p>
<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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