[smokeping-users] ERROR: opening '/tmp/smokeping-ms/data/mysite1/myhost1.rrd': No such file or directory

[Werner Thal]

Dear Layla,

a few weeks ago I have had a similar Problem and I didn't get deep enough into it to
say what was the reason. But I found a workaround wich maybe aslo probable for you.
I am using a Debian Testing System and installed Smokeping from the Debian repositories.
Then I tried to customize the config files for my needs including custom pathes for rrd's,
pictures and so on. But I realized that smokeping does not take care in every case of the
customized pathes. So I did a reinstall and used the original locations for the files and
everything seems to work fine except starting smokeping via rc-scripts.
I have to start it manually as a deamon and no entries in crontab.

Hope that helps you!

Regards
Werner

PS: sorry for my not so good english ;o)



> Josh -
> 
> thank you very much for your response.
> 
> I have yet to do anything with crontab on this system.   I was going
> to follow your suggestion, and I checked in the smokeping directory
> but the only reference I find to cron seems to be for tSmoke, about
> sending email updates on the system status.    Could you tell me what
> you mean by the cron job?
> 
> Also I've been trying to figure out smokeping creates the initial rrd
> file, but I'm still puzzled by this.  Could you tell me where I should
> look to understand that better?
> 
> thanks again
> 
> LN
> 
> On 7/27/11, Joshua Andrews <joshua_andrews at gemvision.com> wrote:
> > Layla:
> > 
> > Not sure, but it "feels" more like the file doesn't exist which means
> > smokeping may not have created the data.  Have you already setup the cron
> > job and given it time to run some data before trying to load the links on
> > the site?
> > 
> > Joshua Andrews > IT Administrator Gemvision Corporation 706 East River
> > Drive Davenport, IA 52803 p 800.357.6272 x143  f 563.884.8181
> > http://www.gemvision.com
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > smokeping-users-bounces+joshua_andrews=gemvision.com at lists.oetiker.ch
> > [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+joshua_andrews=gemvision.com at lists.oetik
> > er.ch] On Behalf Of Layla Nahar
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:35 AM
> > To: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> > Subject: [smokeping-users] ERROR: opening
> > '/tmp/smokeping-ms/data/mysite1/myhost1.rrd': No such file or directory
> > 
> > Hi,  I'm getting this error:
> > 
> > When I click on a menu item (eg 'MySite1) I get the failure.
> > ERROR: opening '/tmp/smokeping-ms/data/mysite1/myhost1.rrd': No such
> > file or directory
> > 
> > Can somebody tell me how to fix this?
> > 
> > I set tmp/smokeping-ms/data to permission 777 and I set ownership of
> > both 'smokeping-ms' and 'data' to smokeping:smokeping.  I also tried
> > setting ownership to apache:apache but I still get the failure above.
> > 
> > I am doing everything as root.  I started smokeping as user root.
> > 
> > root is able to run RRDTool and make a new *.rrd file
> > user smokeping is able to run  "rrdtool --help"  but gets a permission
> > denied error when trying to create an *.rrd file.
> > 
> > Is the source of
> > ERROR: opening '/tmp/smokeping-ms/data/mysite1/myhost1.rrd': No such
> > file or directory
> > in the permissioning?
> > 
> > How can I fix this error?    I can set up new users and groups if
> > necessary.  I've noticed references to user 'www' but I have yet to
> > set up this user.   I guess that it is related to apache.  It would be
> > great if someone could clarify the role of www.
> > 
> > 
> > thank you very much
> > 
> > LN
> > 
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