Sounds like you're running on Linux, and I'm FreeBSD, but here is a generic reply that I hope will be useful.
Figure out what GROUP the smokeping daemon is running as, and: chgrp $GROUP /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf Group-read permissions for group "root" don't do any good if the smokeping daemon isn't running as a user that belongs to group "root" -- and you probably don't want it to. Change the file's group to match the smokeping daemon, not the other way around. And check the ownership/perms of the other path elements /opt /opt/smokeping /opt/smokeping/etc to ensure that they will grant search permission to $GROUP Hope this helps. Jim On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:02:56PM -0500, Eric Chatham wrote: > Hello, > > I had this working at one time with giving the secrets file 640 permissions. > Our hardware failed on our Linux server, so I had to re-install all our > applications from a backup. One of the apps was smokeping. I re-installed > the program and just restored the configs from the backup. > > Can someone tell me why I'm now having a problem on the slave server trying > to open the secrets.conf file on the master server? I keep getting this > error: > > WARNING: Opening secrets file /opt/smokeping/etc/secrets.conf: Permission > denied > > ERROR: we did not get config from the master. Maybe we are not configured as > a slave for any of the targets on the master ? > > Here is my secrets.conf stat: > > stat secrets.conf > File: `secrets.conf' > Size: 56 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file > Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 4423683 Links: 1 > Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Access: 2009-11-03 13:21:26.000000000 -0600 > Modify: 2009-11-02 15:06:10.000000000 -0600 > Change: 2009-11-03 13:36:58.000000000 -0600 > > Eric Chatham > MIS Department > Phone: (216) 373-4683 > Fax: (216) 373-4669 > [email protected] > [cid:[email protected]] > > > ________________________________ > CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and should > be destroyed and/or returned if you are not the intended and proper recipient. > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
