Re: cricket path - problems

On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:07, Florian Haake wrote:
> I have installed cricket 1.0.5 via apt-get on a debian 3.1 system with
> standart paths.
>
> But I have one problem:
> I wanto to configure the system to use the example http-performance
> files:
>
> when I run the collector I got the following messages:
>
> rzcrick:/etc/cricket/config# /usr/share/cricket/collector
> [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Log level changed from warn to info.
> [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Starting collector: Cricket version 1.0.5
> (2004-03-28) [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Retrieving data (EXEC:
> /etc/cricket/config/../cricket/util/test-url 'http://www.cnn.com') for
> www.cnn.com sh: line 1: /etc/cricket/config/../cricket/util/test-url: No
> such file or directory [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Retrieved data for
> www.cnn.com (): U,U
> [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Some data is missing for www.cnn.com ().
> [17-Dec-2006 12:27:51 ] Processed 1 targets in 0 seconds.

You likely have a datasource definition wrong. Working example on Debian 
3.1 here:

datasource      mainboard-temp
        ds-source       =       exec:0:"/usr/share/cricket/util/mbtemp"

Post the interesting bits of your configuration if you are in doubt.

> where must I chance the directory so it works? i searched for a wrong
> path but I didn`t find anything.

The paths should be absolute so it doesn't matter where you are when 
calling the collector. A caveat on Debian though: you need to run the 
collector as user "cricket" (give it a shell instead of /bin/false) 
because otherwise you will be mangling permissions of the RRD files.
This hint is not directly connected to your problem though.

 Christoph
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