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<p>This is not a smokeping problem. You are trying to run smokeping
as Your user on Linux and You do not have write access to the
directory. Run smokeping as a service, not as a standalone
program. <br>
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<p>sudo service smokeping start</p>
<p>sudo service smokeping status</p>
<p>Ian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/04/2018 8:13 AM, Henrik Rosenø
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<pre class="western">creating /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid: Permission denied</pre>
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