Hi David, On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, David Tomic wrote:
> G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > What is the user by which the smokeping processes on the master are run? > > > It's run by a smokeping user on both the master and slave machines. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/lib/smokeping/slave-test > -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 2008-06-21 03:14 > slave-test-google-au~david-slavebox.rrd > -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 2008-06-21 14:38 > slave-test-google-au.rrd The output from 'ps' would be a better indication of which user is running the processes, but accepting for now that it is in fact the smokeping user which is running them, then if you use the '--debug-daemon' switch when you you start smokeping on the _master_, do you see anything like this in the log file (/var/log/messages or wherever the hell it is:) tornado:~# >>> grep Server /var/log/messages | tail -n 3 Jun 21 14:22:36 tornado smokeping[3458]: Calling RRDs::update(/var/lib/smokeping/Local/Server_SSH.rrd --template uptime:loss: [snip] Jun 21 14:26:02 tornado smokeping[3451]: Calling RRDs::update(/var/lib/smokeping/Local/Server.rrd --template uptime:loss:medi [snip] Jun 21 14:26:02 tornado smokeping[3451]: Calling RRDs::update(/var/lib/smokeping/Local/Server~mail4.rrd --template uptime:los [snip] Note that the processes calling RRDs::update on my .rrd files are running as user 'smokeping': tornado:~# >>> ps axufww | grep smoke | grep 345[18] 116 3451 0.0 0.3 56880 21528 ? S Jun20 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing_14] 116 3458 0.0 0.3 56880 21464 ? S Jun20 0:02 \_ /usr/sbin/smokeping [TCPPing] and that (in my system at least) the files that they are writing are writeable only by that user (and root of course): tornado:~# >>> ls -l /var/lib/smokeping/Local | grep Server -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 2008-06-21 14:36 Server~mail4.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 2986808 2008-06-21 14:36 Server.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 779936 2008-06-18 08:49 Server_SSH~mail4.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 779936 2008-06-21 14:32 Server_SSH.rrd -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
