[smokeping-users] Slave cannot open Secrets file (Permisson Denied)

[Eric Chatham]

Hello,

How can I tell if it's running under UID or GID?  I never had a problem before with this running.  I'm running this under root on both master and slave server.  Secrets.conf is owned by root user and group.

From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alter3d at alter3d.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 15:25
To: Eric Chatham
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Slave cannot open Secrets file (Permisson Denied)

I suspect it's a file ownership problem.

Is smokeping running with UID root or GID root (the two conditions which would allow it to access that file given the ownership and permissions)?   Most installations of smokeping run under non-privileged UID/GID for security.





Eric Chatham wrote:
Hello,

I had this working at one time with giving the secrets file 640 permissions.  Our hardware failed on our Linux server, so I had to re-install all our applications from a backup.  One of the apps was smokeping.  I re-installed the program and just restored the configs from the backup.

Can someone tell me why I'm now having a problem on the slave server trying to open the secrets.conf file on the master server?  I keep getting this error:

WARNING: Opening secrets file /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf: Permission denied

ERROR: we did not get config from the master. Maybe we are not configured as a slave for any of the targets on the master ?

Here is my secrets.conf stat:

stat secrets.conf
  File: `secrets.conf'
  Size: 56              Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 4423683     Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2009-11-03 13:21:26.000000000 -0600
Modify: 2009-11-02 15:06:10.000000000 -0600
Change: 2009-11-03 13:36:58.000000000 -0600

Eric Chatham
MIS Department
Phone: (216) 373-4683
Fax: (216) 373-4669
echatham at broadvox.com<mailto:echatham at broadvox.com>
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