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<p class="MsoPlainText">Smokeping usage and install problems:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">The problems boil down to;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">1) Smokeping itself [or more clearly, the user smokeping is running as - and remember it may run as root at the CLI, but as something different when started by the system] can't write to the RRDs or the directory
where the RRD's are to be stored. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">2) The web-server can't *read* the RRD's because it doesn't have rights.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">[far less common, but the same base issue]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">3) In master/slave setups - the slaves [via the web-server] can't write to the RRD's - because the web-server doesn't have rights to the RRDs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">These errors are so common, ti would be nice to have a small script that would run a quick audit/check on all permissions!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I have an install that ran fine for years, and then on a system & Tomcat upgrade now has permissions problems - .cgi access permissions denied.<o:p></o:p></p>
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