Hello All, First of all, I am a recent convert to MRTG and to smokeping. Very nice job!
I had quite a bit of trouble getting smokeping to work. I noticed on the mailing list archives that a lot of other people also had the same problem, so I thought I would share my experience: After installing smokeping and trying to access it via: http://myserver.edu/~mrtg/smokeping/smokeping.cgi I would get the following Server error: The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Error message: Premature end of script headers: smokeping.cgi If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster Error 500 The scripts runs fine from a shell. The html generated views fine in a browser. So I spent much time reading source and also looking at Apache's config file. Everything seemed correct. Finally, I cam across an email from someone on the apache mailing list that suggested that there may be a file permissions problem and to check out the suexec.log (in /etc/httpd/logs/suexec.log). Sure enough: [2003-12-03 22:52:39]: uid: (1005/mrtg) gid: (1005/1005) cmd: smokeping.cgi [2003-12-03 22:52:39]: directory is writable by others: (/home/mrtg/public_html/ smokeping) After "chmod og-w" on all of the relevant directories and files, it works like a charm. I hope this is useful to someone. Best regards, David. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
