[smokeping-users] Permission problem on master server
Darren Murphy
darren at victoriajd.com
Tue Jul 7 10:47:28 CEST 2015
>From what you've pasted below, your apache user (presumably www-data) still
does not have permission to write to /var/lib/smokeping
chown -R smokeping:www-data /var/lib/smokeping
.. should fix that.
On 7 July 2015 at 16:33, Ackermann, Tobias <Tobias.Ackermann at kiongroup.com>
wrote:
> Hello all,
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> the problem is still occurring. L
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> Has anyone an idea how I have to change the permissions for the folder
> that the “Permission denied” error is no longer occurring?
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> [Tue Jul 7 10:29:03 2015] smokeping.cgi [client 10.126.210.101]: Could
> not lock /var/lib/smokeping//services/DNS/ns3.smokeping-slave2.slave_cache
> (Permission denied). Trying again 2 more times.
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> [Tue Jul 7 10:29:04 2015] smokeping.cgi [client 10.126.210.101]: Could
> not lock /var/lib/smokeping//services/DNS/ns3.smokeping-slave2.slave_cache
> (Permission denied). Trying again 1 more times.
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> [Tue Jul 7 10:29:04 2015] smokeping.cgi [client 10.126.210.101]: Could
> not update
> /var/lib/smokeping//services/DNS/ns3.smokeping-slave2.slave_cache, giving
> up for now. at /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Master.pm line 156.
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> *root at smokeping-master:/*var/lib# cd /var/lib/
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> *root at smokeping-master:/*var/lib# ls -l
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> total 104
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> drwxr-xr-x 5 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:16 apt
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:52 aptitude
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:45 dhcp
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> drwxr-xr-x 4 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:59 dictionaries-common
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> drwxr-xr-x 8 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:16 dpkg
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 7 09:11 exim4
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:46 initramfs-tools
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 14 2013 initscripts
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 14 2013 insserv
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:00 ispell
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> drwxrwsr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Dec 11 2012 libuuid
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 2 06:25 logrotate
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Dec 4 2013 misc
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 7 06:25 mlocate
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> drwxr-xr-x 5 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:02 nfs
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Apr 28 2013 os-prober
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:44 pam
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 smokeping www-data 18 Jul 1 13:59 python-support ->
> /usr/lib/pymodules
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:00 sgml-base
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> drwxrwxr-x 8 smokeping root 4096 Jul 7 08:23 smokeping
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> drwxr-xr-x 3 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:59 tex-common
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> drwxr-xr-x 3 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:01 ucf
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Nov 23 2012 update-rc.d
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:44 urandom
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:46 usbutils
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> drwxr-xr-x 3 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 13:45 vim
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:00 xml-core
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> *root at smokeping-master:/*var/lib/smokeping# ls -l
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> total 24
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> drwxrwsr-x 2 smokeping root 4096 Mar 17 2013 __cgi
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> drwxrwxr-x 5 smokeping root 4096 Jul 1 20:57 Main
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> drwxrwxr-x 5 smokeping root 4096 Jul 7 08:23 Systems
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> drwxrwxr-x 2 smokeping root 4096 Jul 7 09:15 Local
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> drwxrwxr-x 6 smokeping root 4096 Jul 7 08:02 services
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> drwxrwxr-x 2 smokeping root 4096 Jul 7 10:31 __sortercache
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> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping#
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> Regards
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> Tobias
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> *Von:* Ackermann, Tobias
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 3. Juli 2015 21:00
> *An:* 'Greg Sloop'; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> *Betreff:* AW: [smokeping-users] Permission problem on master server
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> Hi Greg,
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> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local# chmod g+w
> :/var/lib/smokeping/Local
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> chmod: cannot access `:/var/lib/smokeping/Local': No such file or directory
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> So I run following command on master and slave without any error:
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> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local# chmod g+w -R
> /var/lib/smokeping/*
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> Now I can’t find an new error in the apache log file (since the last 15
> minutes) but I’m still not seeing the Graph on the website from the master
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> Any idea?
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> Thanks.
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> Tobias
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> *Von:* smokeping-users [
> mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+tobias.ackermann=kion-ims.com at lists.oetiker.ch
> <smokeping-users-bounces+tobias.ackermann=kion-ims.com at lists.oetiker.ch>] *Im
> Auftrag von *Gregory Sloop
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 3. Juli 2015 20:12
> *An:* smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> *Betreff:* Re: [smokeping-users] Permission problem on master server
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> So, it looks like Apache doesn't have rights to create the cache directory.
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> See:
> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:28 ..
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> So, assuming I'm right:
> chmod g+w :/var/lib/smokeping/Local
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> This would make that directory RW for the group [www-data]
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> However, I'll be surprised if the slaves can write to the RRD's either,
> since they're also r-- for the group, so you'll probably want to use the
> same chmod command on them.
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> -Greg
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> Thank you for your reply.
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> root at smokeping-master:~# ls -al
> /var/lib/smokeping/Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache
> ls: cannot access
> /var/lib/smokeping/Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache: No such
> file or directory
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> If I run it in this way I got the following output:
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> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local# ls -al
> total 11688
> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 smokeping www-data 4096 Jul 1 14:28 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986808 Jul 3 20:02 LocalMachine.rrd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986808 Jul 1 14:28
> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave1.rrd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986808 Jul 1 14:28
> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave2.rrd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping www-data 2986808 Jul 1 14:28
> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave3.rrd
> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local#
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> Thank you and regards
> Tobias
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>
> *Von:* smokeping-users [
> mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+tobias.ackermann=kion-ims.com at lists.oetiker.ch
> <smokeping-users-bounces+tobias.ackermann=kion-ims.com at lists.oetiker.ch>] *Im
> Auftrag von *Gregory Sloop
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 3. Juli 2015 18:10
> *An:* smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> *Betreff:* Re: [smokeping-users] Permission problem on master server
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> ls -al /var/lib/smokeping//Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache
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> on the Slave system : AT> AT> root at smokeping-slave1:~# smokeping -restart
> AT> --master-url=http://10.16.0.91/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
> <http://10.16.0.91/smokeping/smokeping.cgi> AT> --cache-dir=/var/smokeping/
> AT> --shared-secret=/var/smokeping/secret.txt AT> Sent data to Server and
> got new config in response. *
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> *AT> Note: logging to syslog as local0/info. AT> Daemonizing
> /usr/sbin/smokeping ... AT> root at smokeping-slave1:~# AT> AT> Debug mode
> tell me also “Sent data to Server. Server said OK”. AT> AT> But if I
> have a look to the apache error log AT> (/var/log/apache2/error.log)on the
> master Server I found this errors: AT> AT> [Wed Jul 1 20:37:37 2015]
> smokeping.cgi [client 10.16.10.108]: AT> Could not lock AT>
> /var/lib/smokeping//Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache AT>
> (Permission denied). Trying again 2 more times. AT> [Wed Jul 1 20:37:38
> 2015] smokeping.cgi [client 10.16.10.108]: AT> Could not lock AT>
> /var/lib/smokeping//Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache AT>
> (Permission denied). Trying again 1 more times. AT> [Wed Jul 1 20:37:38
> 2015] smokeping.cgi [client 10.16.10.108]: AT> Could not update AT>
> /var/lib/smokeping//Local/LocalMachine.smokeping-slave1.slave_cache, AT>
> giving up for now. at /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Maste..... AT> And many
> many more entries. AT> AT> I think I have to change the permission for
> the folder AT> /var/lib/Smokeping/ but I don’t now with which permissions
> for which user. AT> Here the permissions for the folders: AT> AT>
> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib# ls -l AT> total 104 AT> drwxr-xr-x 5 root
> root 4096 Jul 1 14:16 apt AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root
> 4096 Jul 1 13:52 aptitude AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul
> 1 13:45 dhcp AT> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:59
> dictionaries-common AT> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jul 1 14:16
> dpkg AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 14:02 exim4 AT>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:46 initramfs-tools AT>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 2013 initscripts AT>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 2013 insserv AT> drwxr-xr-x 2
> root root 4096 Jul 1 14:00 ispell AT> drwxrwsr-x 2 libuuid
> libuuid 4096 Dec 11 2012 libuuid AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root
> 4096 May 17 2012 logrotate AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec
> 4 2013 misc AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 25 2010
> mlocate AT> drwxr-xr-x 5 statd nogroup 4096 Jul 1 14:02 nfs AT>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 28 2013 os-prober AT> drwxr-xr-x
> 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:44 pam AT> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
> 18 Jul 1 13:59 python-support -> /usr/lib/pymodules AT> drwxr-xr-x
> 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 14:00 sgml-base AT> drwxr-xr-x 6
> smokeping smokeping 4096 Jul 1 14:28 smokeping AT> drwxr-xr-x 3 root
> root 4096 Jul 1 13:59 tex-common AT> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root
> 4096 Jul 1 14:01 ucf AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 23
> 2012 update-rc.d AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:44
> urandom AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:46 usbutils AT>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 1 13:45 vim AT> drwxr-xr-x 2
> root root 4096 Jul 1 14:00 xml-core AT> AT> AT>
> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping# ls -l AT> total 16 AT> drwxrwsr-x
> 2 smokeping www-data 4096 Mar 17 2013 __cgi AT> drwxr-xr-x 5 smokeping
> smokeping 4096 Jul 1 20:57 All AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping smokeping 4096
> Jul 1 14:28 Local AT> drwxr-xr-x 2 smokeping smokeping 4096 Jul 1 21:13
> __sortercache AT> AT> AT>
> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local# ls -l AT> total 11680 AT>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 Jul 1 21:18 LocalMachine.rrd AT>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 Jul 1 14:28 AT>
> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave1.rrd AT> -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping
> 2986808 Jul 1 14:28 AT> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave2.rrd AT> -rw-r--r-- 1
> smokeping smokeping 2986808 Jul 1 14:28 AT>
> LocalMachine~smokeping-slave3.rrd AT>
> root at smokeping-master:/var/lib/smokeping/Local#*
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