[smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it

[Ben Wright]

I'm most certain it's not a problem with smokeping itself, just my lack of comprehension on the FAQ which I did read.

This is on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I know I should have included that in the first message.

The following is what happens when I try and start it in debug mode. Apparently I need to change the owner of the /opt/smokeping folder to something so that the daemon can write in there? I'm not clear on what the daemon runs as.

Log:


### Compiling alert detector pattern 'someloss'
### >0%,*12*,>0%,*12*,>0%
sub {
    my $d = shift;
    my $y = $d->{loss};
    for(1){
        my $imax2 = min(@$y - 3, 12);
        my $imax1 = min(@$y - 3, 12);
        my $minlength = 3;
        my $maxlength = 27;
        next if scalar @$y < $minlength ;
        my $i1;
        for($i1=0; $i1 < min($maxlength,$imax1); $i1++){
            my $i2;
            for($i2=0; $i2 < min($maxlength-$i1,$imax2); $i2++){
                next unless defined $y->[-3-$i1-$i2]
                                and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] =~ /^\d/
                                and $y->[-3-$i1-$i2] > 0
                                     ;                last;
            }
            return 0 if $i2 >= min($maxlength-$i1-$i2,$imax2);
            next unless defined $y->[-2-$i1]
                            and $y->[-2-$i1] =~ /^\d/
                            and $y->[-2-$i1] > 0
                                 ;            last;
        }
        return 0 if $i1 >= min($maxlength-$i1,$imax1);
        next unless defined $y->[-1]
                        and $y->[-1] =~ /^\d/
                        and $y->[-1] > 0
                             ;        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}



ERROR: mkdir /opt/smokeping/data/Test: Permission denied




When I try to change ownership with chown for the /opt/smokeping/data folder to smokeping:www-data I get invalid user 'smokeping:www-data'


From: Gregory Sloop [mailto:gregs at sloop.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:43 PM
To: Ben Wright <benw at coriumintl.com>
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it

See the FAQ. Honestly, it solves like 90% of the questions.
https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/wiki/FAQ

Also, selinux and/or the Ubuntu/debian equivalent. [I can't ever remember the name] They can cause lots of problems. Set them as permissive, or completely disable them. Once you've got a working setup, you can turn them back on and tweak as needed.

As an feeble attempt to offer a suggestion, given the paucity of data from you: Can the user who started SP in debug mode create these directories/files from a manual command line (i.e. mkdir -p /opt/smokeping/data/test)? If not, then it's a permissions problem, not a smokeping problem.

If the above doesn't help: [But really, follow the docs and the FAQ. Do a search on the mailing list archives. You'll almost certainly find a similar situation and fix there.]


1) A debug log would be good. :)
2) We'd also like to know what distribution and version, and how you installed SP. [Sources or packages?]
3) Perhaps strip the log-file to minimums - and if it doesn't work, post the [minimum] config.
[You'll have to provide a lot more detail than you've done for us to help you.]

-Greg


I left out that I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

From: smokeping-users [mailto:smokeping-users-bounces+benw=coriumintl.com at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Ben Wright
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:26 PM
To: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch<mailto:smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch>
Subject: [smokeping-users] New to SmokePing and having issues with configuring it

I'm stuck with permissions and whichever folders. So far I've got it compiled and all modules included, but when I go to start the daemon in debug mode, it stops at the point where it is trying to make the /opt/smokeping/data/test directory with a permission denied notice.

I'm also confused on what needs to happen to get the web interface working.

Looking forward to using this product, once I get it configured correctly.


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