[SOLVED] Spikekill 1.0 Not Working on Linux

xminos · Post by **xminos** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:12 am

Thanks for creating this plugin Larry. Killspike recently stopped working (randomly at that) and I had to hack all kinds of things such as permissions and such to get that even to work a little bit.

I'll load this up and see how it goes. Appreciate your efforts!

-Tim

xminos · Post by **xminos** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:14 am

Larry,

I get the following error.

My paths are correct for rrdtool (it's been existing). Is this perhaps a permission issue? Does it run as apache or cactiuser?

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:08 pm

Same here...

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:01 pm

The httpd user must have rw to the RRDfiles. Without it, this plugin will not work. However, I could setup a command like RRDClean, but you would likely not see the results of your spike kill action immediately.

There are other options as well, but then I would have to spend more time on this, which right now, would be difficult.

I would like you all to conduct some "Analyze" run's and tweak your settings before you go hog wild using the plugin anyway.

Regards,

TheWitness

xminos · Post by **xminos** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:16 pm

In my case my entire rra directory is chmod'd 0777. So completely world readable and world writable. The error I received was above.

TheWitness wrote:The httpd user must have rw to the RRDfiles. Without it, this plugin will not work. However, I could setup a command like RRDClean, but you would likely not see the results of your spike kill action immediately.

There are other options as well, but then I would have to spend more time on this, which right now, would be difficult.

I would like you all to conduct some "Analyze" run's and tweak your settings before you go hog wild using the plugin anyway.

Regards,

TheWitness

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:46 pm

I think this is specific to Linux/UNIX. I tested on Windows only. If you search for "/tmp" in the removespike.php file and remove the trailing "/" from the path, see if that fixes it.

TheWitness

xminos · Post by **xminos** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:38 pm

TheWitness wrote:I think this is specific to Linux/UNIX. I tested on Windows only. If you search for "/tmp" in the removespike.php file and remove the trailing "/" from the path, see if that fixes it.

TheWitness

I made the changes above and I still get the same error. You are correct however I am on a linux system.

I changed-

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}else{
        $tempdir = "/tmp/";
        $xmlfile = "/tmp/" . str_replace(".rrd", "", $rrdfile) . ".dump." . $seed;

to

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 }else{
        $tempdir = "/tmp";
        $xmlfile = "/tmp" . str_replace(".rrd", "", $rrdfile) . ".dump." . $seed;

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:02 pm

All,

I will be posting 1.0-2 momentarily. It is now tested on Linux/UNIX.

TheWitness

xminos · Post by **xminos** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:54 am

TheWitness wrote:All,

I will be posting 1.0-2 momentarily. It is now tested on Linux/UNIX.

TheWitness

Confirmed working for me. Very nice plugin TheWitness thank you so much!

-Tim

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[SOLVED] Spikekill 1.0 Not Working on Linux

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