[smokeping-users] SmokePing, Ubuntu, and Permission Errors

[David Tomic]

Have you installed SmokePing via synaptic / apt-get ... or have you done 
a 'manual' installation?

My install on Ubuntu [just done via synaptic] actually uses a separate 
user account for the Smokeping daemon.

This is what I have set for the permissions on /var/lib/smokeping:

Owner: smokeping - SmokePing daemon
Access: Read and write

Group: www-data
Access: Read-only

Others
Access: Read-only

Obviously make sure that's applied properly to both the files & folders.

Does that make any difference at all?

--David Tomic

Richey wrote:
> I am trying to get Smoke Ping running  on Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon with
> Apache2.  I can’t get the graphs to do anything.  When I look at
> /var/log/messages it’s full of:
>
> Apr 11 07:40:38 toybox4 smokeping[5565]: RRDs::update ERROR: opening
> '/var/lib/smokeping/Media.rrd': Permission denied
> Apr 11 07:40:38 toybox4 smokeping[5565]: RRDs::update ERROR: opening
> '/var/lib/smokeping/Local/LocalMachine.rrd': Permission denied
>
> Googleing, I found a post that says that you need to change the ownership of
> the files in /var/lib/smokeping/* to apache.  I think that ubuntu runs
> apache as www-data.  So I have tried to change the ownership of the files to
> both apache and www-data.   I still get the same results.   Are there maybe
> some files in other places that need a change of ownership or permissions? 
> I have also messed with the ownership of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi.
>
> I’ve messed with this off and on for a few weeks.  Ten minutes here ten
> there so I am sure I am over looking something simple.
>
> Richey
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