[smokeping-users] TCPPing probe doesn't generate data

[David Tomic]

G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
> Probably not in /var/log/messages then - that's why I put a question
> mark there.  It depends how your logging is set up.  Where does Apache
> send its 'error log' on your system?  That's where it will be.  

/var/log/apache2/error.log
> It's
> confusing to have debug messages going to /var/log/messages and yet
> the other (Apache) log stuff going somewhere else, but that's the way
> things are at present.
>
> You also might want to try putting the same print statement after this
> line:
>
>     next unless ':' eq shift @times; #drop the colon
>   

So you're saying that I should end up with:
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        next unless /^\S+\s+:\s+[\d\.]/; #filter out error messages from 
tcpping
        @times = split /\s+/;
        my $ip = shift @times;
    print STDERR @times;
        next unless ':' eq shift @times; #drop the colon
    print STDERR @times;
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> If there isn't an element in the array that contains just a single
> colon character, it will shift everything out of it leaving it empty...
>   

I've done all that, but I'm still not seeing anything in the apache log 
file either.

Just out of curiosity, did you actually get/read my message wondering if 
it was some sort of permissions problem?

https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/smokeping-users/2008-June/003129.html

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 FWIW I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and just installed Smokeping through
 their software repository.  As part of that installation, it seems to
 have created a seperate 'smokeping' user + group, so could that
 possibly have something to do with the problem?

 I'm still [relatively] new to the whole Linux world, so I'm sure that
 I don't quite have my head around all these permissions/etc properly yet.

 Is there an easy way to check and/or rule out any sort of permission
 error as the source of my problem?

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