[smokeping-users] SmokePing permission

[Peter Kristolaitis]

The SmokePing poller typically does not run under the Apache user's
context -- it will typically run under its own account (smokeping,
_smokeping, etc), depending on your particular platform and how you've
configured it.

You should check what user was created during the port install, and set
that user to be the owner of that directory.

- Peter


Kim Ford wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> This is my first time trying to install SmokePing.  I installed using
> ports on a FreeBSD machine to learn.
>
>  
>
> I’m getting the following error trying to start SmokePing:
>
>  
>
> Starting smokeping.
>
> ### assuming you are using an fping copy reporting in milliseconds
>
> ERROR: mkdir /usr/local/etc/smokeping/tmp/data/mysite2: Permission denied
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smokeping: WARNING: failed to start smokeping
>
>  
>
> I created the tmp directory under /usr/local/etc/smokeping/ for lack
> of any documentation I could dig up.
>
>  
>
> Permissions on this directory are:
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>  
>
> [root at freebsd /usr/local/etc/smokeping]# ls -al tmp
>
> total 8
>
> drwxr-xr-x  4 www   www    512 Feb  3 00:11 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Feb  3 00:12 ..
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www    512 Feb  3 00:11 data
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www    512 Feb  3 00:11 var
>
>  
>
> I’m assuming that smokeping runs under the Apache www account. 
> Everything does work if chmod 777 the temp dir, but I don’t think
> that’s good practice.
>
>  
>
> What’s the proper permission to set here?
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>  
>
> Thanks mucho,
>
>  
>
> Kim
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