Re: Can't locate RRDs.pm

Stephen Carville <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.cricket.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
> Stephen Carville wrote:
> 
>>My setup does but your's appear to be looking in
>>
>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs/
>>
>>try
>>
>># ldd \
>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so
>>
>>to find out where perl expect to find out where RRDs.so expects to
>>find the missing library.
> 
> 
> Thanks Steven,
> 
> I like the way you're thinking and I'm so close I can feel it ...
> 
> ldd is unfortunately not listing the expected location though .
> 
> # ldd
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so
>         librrd.so.2 => not found
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00b23000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00de9000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x007b1000)
> 
> looking back at my install notes, I see that I set the Env variable as
> INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15
> 
> and running locate shows that this is indeed where it is located.
> 
> [root@nagios2 RRDs]# locate librrd.so.2
> /home/cricket/rrdtool-1.2.15/src/.libs/librrd.so.2.0.8
> /home/cricket/rrdtool-1.2.15/src/.libs/librrd.so.2
> /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15/lib/librrd.so.2.0.8
> /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15/lib/librrd.so.2
> 
> I guess something in my environment must be wrong because that's not
> where it's looking.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Quick and dirty solution is to put a symlink in a 'standard' lib directory.

# ln -sf /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15/lib/librrd.so.2.0.8  \
/usr/lib/librrd.so.2

I do this, it works.

A purist would probably set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in his crontab and in httpd.conf

> Thanks
> Warrick
> 


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