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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have recently installed smokeping and have both a ‘master’ and ‘slave’ system working.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, when I installed the two instances of smokeping, on their respective servers, they installed with different uids & gids to each other. I elected to amend the uid & gid of the ‘master’ instance, to bring them in line with each other, because the corresponding uid & gid was already in use on the ‘slave’ system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The first problem I’m now experiencing is that when I add a new target to the master system the new location folder and rrds within are created with the old(original) gid, which no longer has any group associated with it. When I manually correct the gid/group ownership the new targets work ok.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The second problem is that when a new target is added, smokeping sets (or attempts to set) the folder and rrd user and group ownership to the smokeping user & group but for smokeping to work properly with slaves the htmld/apache user needs access – in my case I’m setting the group ownership to the apache group i.e. www-data. So even if I wasn’t experiencing the first problem of the incorrect gid being set I’d still have to manually change the permissions anyway.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can’t see where the old gid is being picked up from – I thought I found and updated the user and group ownership of all the files owned by the smokeping user and group when I changed the smokeping uid & gid but I guess it’s possible I’ve missed one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LeeE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>