[smokeping-users] smoketrace for dummies help please

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Jsg,

I expected that there were going to be some questions ...
veryfingint the js I included with version 2.4.0 I  found that my
release script actualy was doing bad damage to it ... I am working
on 2.4.1 now, and will also address some of your points below in
the install instructions in the process ... thanks for spending the
time testing the beast ...

Today jsg at internode.on.net wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I've managed the upgrade to smokeping 2.4.0 without any major dramas,
> but I simply can NOT for the life of me get the smoketrace part of it up
> and running.
>
> I'm very much a novice when it comes to all this scripting stuff, so I
> think I might be in need of some pretty basic help.
>
> Can anybody please spare me the time/patience to walk me through EXACTLY
> what needs to be done, step by step?
>
> Obviously I've tried reading the documentation ... but I'm still really
> struggling with it.
>
> Here's what's laid out in the documentation.
>
> 1. Copy htdocs/script/Tr.js to your smokeping web directory.
>
> I'm not sure which path this is actually referring to?
> All my images etc are stored in /var/www/smokeping but my smokeping.cgi
> file is in /usr/lib/cgi-bin.  The latter is also where you're sent when
> you actually load smokeping in the browser.  IE
> myurl.com/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi.

Tr.js must be stored somewhere that the browser can read it ...
>
> 2. Copy and edit htdocs/tr.html to your smokeping web directory. Make
> sure the path to Tr.js is correct.

tr.html must be stored in the same location as tr.cgi, and this can
not be cgi-bin since that location will prevent tr.html from being
sent to the browser ..

> 3. Copy htdocs/resource into the directory where you put tr.html.
>
> Those should both be simple enough, once I know which directory it's
> actually talking about! :p

the directory is irrelevant as long as the browser can read it, and
tr.cgi gets executed ...
>
> 4. Copy and edit htdocs/tr.cgi.dist to the directory where you put
> tr.html and change its name to tr.cgi. Make sure tr.cgi to adjust the
> use lib line to point to the smokeping per lib directory, as you did
> with smokeping.cgi. Make sure the webserver actually executes the tr.cgi
> script.
>
> Is that supposed to be "perl" lib directory?

>
> smokeping.cgi lists "use lib qw(/usr/share/perl5/smokeping);"  ... is
> that what I should be using?

yep


> I'm also confused by the qooxdoo folder included in the smokeping
> package.  I don't see it mentioned in any of the documentation anywhere,
> so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be doing anything with it?

this is the source of the qooxdoo application, for people who like
to hack on it ...

cheers
tobi


>
> ANY help would be really greatly appreciated!
>
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