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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just taking the opportunity to say hi to Greg. Nice to see you still active here buddy, I ‘ll try and help as much as I can from now on.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I need some help myself, when I get time I will post my issue..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gregory Sloop [mailto:gregs@sloop.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 04, 2015 12:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ben Wright<br>
<b>Cc:</b> smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">So, I still have almost none of information I asked for:<br>
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Given what you've said, I *assume* you didn't install using apt-get [i.e. a package.]<br>
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If you didn't, you don't get ANY of the helps that a package does - like creating the users and groups - like the "smokeping" user/group. [So you'll have to do it yourself.] This is also a good reason to stay fairly current in your distro. [Is 10.04 still supported?
I guess it might be - but the version of SP on 10.04 is going to be pretty old.]<br>
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12.04 or 14.04 have fairly current versions of SP. [I use both, and have SP running on several installations in both versions.]<br>
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The daemon [when in debug mode], will be running as whomever you are logged in as. I'd assume you're not running as root, so it's likely you won't have permissions.<br>
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1) A debug log would be good. :)<br>
2) We'd also like to know what distribution and version, and how you installed SP. [Sources or packages?]<br>
3) Perhaps strip the log-file to minimums - and if it doesn't work, post the [minimum] config.<br>
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We've got #1, but not #2 or #3.<br>
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As noted in a post I just made - this really looks like a "lack of experience" problem. While I really do sympathize - there's not a lot I can do to ease the pain of learning. [Short of a *lot* of hand-holding - which I don't have time to do, and which is pretty
costly in terms of lost time/earnings for me.]<br>
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Get a good linux book. Do a bunch of googling - it's just going to take a lot of time and effort. A good in-person class _might_ be helpful - but those can be dicey.<br>
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Good luck. I'm glad to try to keep helping - but I only have so much time/energy.<br>
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-Greg<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I’m most certain it’s not a problem with smokeping itself, just my lack of comprehension on the FAQ which I did read.<br>
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This is on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I know I should have included that in the first message.<br>
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The following is what happens when I try and start it in debug mode. Apparently I need to change the owner of the /opt/smokeping folder to something so that the daemon can write in there? I’m not clear on what the daemon runs as.<br>
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Log:<br>
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### Compiling alert detector pattern 'someloss'<br>
### >0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%<br>
sub {<br>
my $d = shift;<br>
my $y = $d->{loss};<br>
for(1){<br>
my $imax2 = min(@$y - 3, 12);<br>
my $imax1 = min(@$y - 3, 12);<br>
my $minlength = 3;<br>
my $maxlength = 27;<br>
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my $i1;<br>
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my $i2;<br>
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next unless defined $y->[-3-$i1-$i2]<br>
and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] =~ /^\d/<br>
and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] > 0<br>
; last;<br>
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return 0 if $i2 >= min($maxlength-$i1-$i2,$imax2);<br>
next unless defined $y->[-2-$i1]<br>
and $y->[-2-$i1] =~ /^\d/<br>
and $y->[-2-$i1] > 0<br>
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; return 1;<br>
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return 0;<br>
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ERROR: mkdir /opt/smokeping/data/Test: Permission denied<br>
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When I try to change ownership with chown for the /opt/smokeping/data folder to smokeping:www-data I get invalid user ‘smokeping:www-data’<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> Gregory Sloop [<a href="mailto:gregs@sloop.net">mailto:gregs@sloop.net</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ben Wright <<a href="mailto:benw@coriumintl.com">benw@coriumintl.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">See the FAQ. Honestly, it solves like 90% of the questions.<br>
</span><a href="https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/wiki/FAQ"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/wiki/FAQ</span></a>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt">Also, selinux and/or the Ubuntu/debian equivalent. [I can't ever remember the name] They can cause lots of problems. Set them as permissive, or completely disable them. Once you've got a working setup, you can turn them back on
and tweak as needed.<br>
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As an feeble attempt to offer a suggestion, given the paucity of data from you: Can the user who started SP in debug mode create these directories/files from a manual command line (i.e. mkdir -p
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">/opt/smokeping/data/test)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">? If not, then it's a permissions problem, not a smokeping problem.<br>
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If the above doesn't help: [But really, follow the docs and the FAQ. Do a search on the mailing list archives. You'll almost certainly find a similar situation and fix there.]<br>
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1) A debug log would be good. :)<br>
2) We'd also like to know what distribution and version, and how you installed SP. [Sources or packages?]<br>
3) Perhaps strip the log-file to minimums - and if it doesn't work, post the [minimum] config.<br>
[You'll have to provide a lot more detail than you've done for us to help you.]<br>
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-Greg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I left out that I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> smokeping-users [</span><a href="mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+benw=coriumintl.com@lists.oetiker.ch"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+benw=coriumintl.com@lists.oetiker.ch</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Wright<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:26 PM<br>
<b>To: </b></span><a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</span></a><br>
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it<br>
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I’m stuck with permissions and whichever folders. So far I’ve got it compiled and all modules included, but when I go to start the daemon in debug mode, it stops at the point where it is trying to make the /opt/smokeping/data/test directory with a permission
denied notice.<br>
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I’m also confused on what needs to happen to get the web interface working.<br>
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Looking forward to using this product, once I get it configured correctly.<br>
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