[smokeping-users] Re: What is needed to make SmokePing run on Linux

[Mario Oosters]

To be honest,

I am relatively new too linux and had quite some difficulties to get 
Smokeping running on a freshly installed Suse machine. I guess that the 
documentation is fairly well for somebody who knows Linux well, but for 
me... It took me about 2 days to get everything running correctly. 
(Smokeping 2.0 rc5 + RRDTool 1.2.9)

Example : Why does speedy smokeping.cgi worked and gave an error can not 
spawn backend process in the apache logfiles?? Apparently this was due to 
the security settings of the config file I believe... For a guy who is 
relatively new, this can be a hard nut to crack. For a newbie it's close to 
impossible... Anyway I am thinking of setting up a newbie documentation for 
others and for some of my colleagues to install this awesome tool.

I know off course that he should have read the website because he can see 
the packages needed to run there, which would have answered his question.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Schappell" <archon at silvertree.org>
To: <smokeping-users at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:33 AM
Subject: [smokeping-users] Re: What is needed to make SmokePing run on Linux


Marc Powell wrote:
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> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/docs/index.en.html
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> What more could you need?
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> --
> Marc

A spoon to feed him with, oh, and let's not forget the SysOp's HandHolding
Guide. And, a hefty measure of ability to read would help. Oh, right, let's
not forget the cognizant ability to figure something out on ones own.

Oh, wait, perhaps I am asking for too much. It's far better to just tell
him what he wants to know. That way if something breaks he'll be far too
clueless to figure it out and then he can pester the list again!  Are you
actually suggesting or implying that someone would actually try to /read/
something in this day and age of "gimme the answer I'm too lazy to find it
on my own".

What were you thinking? :)

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