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

[Peter Kristolaitis]

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
>
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