[smokeping-users] master/slave error

[Peter Kristolaitis]

The directory that holds your RRD files must be readable/writeable by
both the Smokeping process AND the webserver.

e.g.  If
  - Your httpd runs as 'www'
  - Smokeping runs as 'smokeping'
  - In the Smokeping config, datadir  = /var/www/smokeping/rrd

Then,
- Create a new group called 'smokeping'
- Add both the 'www' and 'smokeping' users to that group
- chgrp smokeping /var/www/smokeping/rrd
- chmod -R 775 /var/www/smokeping/rrd

That should clear it up.

If that doesn't work, run one of your slaves with --debug and see if it
spits back an error of any kind.



Seth Lyons wrote:
> Greetings!
>  
> I am attempting to run a distributed smokeping setup in FreeBSD.  I
> haven't been able to find in the docs information on what the
> appropriate file permissions (and ownership) should be for the .rrd and
> cache directories (/usr/local/var/smokeping).
>  
> The problem I'm having is that the graphs of my slaves are blank.  At
> first I was unable to write cache files to the above directory (and
> subdirectories), so I temporarily changed the perms to 777 just to see
> if that would fix the problem.  Now the all of the files are being
> written, but the graphs are still blank.
>  
> Please advise.
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> System info:
> FreeBSD 7.0
> smokeping-2.4.2
> rrdtool-1.3.3
> 
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