If anyone can help me get over the hump on this I'd be very grateful? <div><br></div><div>If I can just get this finished then I can set out an easy-to-follow list of steps for other new SmokePing users and submit it here and on my blog for everyone's benefit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Will Brocklebank</b> <br>Date: Monday, 30 September 2013<br>Subject: Permissions or something else?<br>To: "<a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a>" <<a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a>><br>
<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all<div><br></div><div>Over the weekend I wanted to build up my entire Smokeping installation again on a fresh SD install of Raspbian because the first time there was much trial and error and I didn't wholly understand the process. So this time I thought I'd do it methodically and keep track of my moves.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it's gone wrong! Now I keep getting:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Times">ERROR: opening '/var/lib/smokeping/mysite1/myhost2.rrd': No such file or directory</div><div style="font-family:Times">
/var/cache/smokeping/images/mysite1/myhost2_last_10800.png</div><div style="font-family:Times"><br></div><div style="font-family:Times">I know that some posts have put this down to a permissions error but I can't seem to solve it using the instructions that follow. Could someone give me baby-steps on how to check the permissions of the various directories, processes and files that need to be right?</div>
<div style="font-family:Times"><br></div><div style="font-family:Times">I realise I should use suexec (perhaps it would solve this issue??) but I can't find instructions that seem to work to set this up either... </div>
<div style="font-family:Times"><br></div><div style="font-family:Times">For clarity my steps so far, have been:</div><div>
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<p> 1. Format SD card of at least 8GB with SDFormatter<br><br>2. Copy to SD card the latest NOOBS software<br><br>3. Insert SD card into Pi and power on. Follow GUI to install Raspbian<br><br>4. Change main password<br><br>
5. On Advanced Options page enable SSH<br><br>6. SSH to Pi<br><br>7. Run sudo apt-get update<br><br>8. Then sudo apt-get upgrade<br><br>9. sudo reboot<br><br>10. Then login again and become root sudo su<br><br>11. Install Apache2 and FastCGI by following instructions from here: <a href="http://raspberryserver.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://raspberryserver.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br>
<br>12. Begin installing SmokePing from <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html" target="_blank">http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html</a><br><br>13. - this will include sudo apt-get install rrdtool etc (follow the list)<br>
<br>14. Install CPAN by using this command: cpan App::cpanminus<br><br>15. You may need to run cpanm install CPAN and then cpanm reload CPAN to make sure you have the most up to date version<br><br>16. Install the PERL modules using this command: sudo cpanm <Insert-module-name here> from the SmokePing list<br>
<br>17. When you have installed all the PERL modules and have got to the installation section on the Smokeping page use apt-get install smokeping to actually put the package in place<br><br>18. move to the /etc/smokeping/config.d <br>
<br>19. Edit the Target file using this page of examples to help <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_examples.en.html" target="_blank">http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_examples.en.html</a><br>
<br>20. [At this stage I was getting ERROR: /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames, line 1: File '/usr/sbin/sendmail' does not exist] so I had to run apt-get install sendmail</p><div>21. Install sudo apt-get install apache2-suexec-custom</div>
<div><br></div><div>22…….. how best to configure suexec?????</div></div></div></div></div><br></div>