No data gathering at all (lastest Cacti, RH9, Apache 2.0.40)

[TomChiverton]

I've followed all the install instructions, including setting up a cron job, and even bounced cron, yet I don't see, to have any gathering taking place.
There are no errors I can see, and no RRDs either:
cacti]$ ls -la log rra
log:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 cacti users 4096 Jul 14 06:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 15 08:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 14 06:36 rrd.log

rra:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 cacti users 4096 Jul 15 14:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 15 08:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 0 Jul 14 06:36 .placeholder

Anyone care to hazard a guess what may be up ?
The web interface is up and running fine.

[TomChiverton]

No, that's fine, I won't use Cacti, NaP :-/

[wmelick]

Some questions:

1) Have you defined polling hosts and data sources?

2) If you run cm.php (in the cacti directory) what does it report? You should see OIDs and data value (N:xxxxxx) updates to the rra's.

[wmelick]

Sorry about that typo.....I meant cmd.php in the cacti dir.

[TomChiverton]

Some questions:

1) Have you defined polling hosts and data sources?

2) If you run cm.php (in the cacti directory) what does it report? You should see OIDs and data value (N:xxxxxx) updates to the rra's.

I was just now running php cmd.php and it's gone off and done loads of stuff. Very odd. Seems to have created the RRDs now.
I even get some graphs.

Really odd.

Ho hum

:goes off to play some more.

[wmelick]

Yes, cmd.php triggers a bunch of stuff including the creation of rrd's if they are not there.

The way I make my cron work is to create some cactiuser as a user account, become that user then do a 'crontab -e' and make the first line like:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php > /dev/null 2>&1

[TomChiverton]

Yes, cmd.php triggers a bunch of stuff including the creation of rrd's if they are not there.

The way I make my cron work is to create some cactiuser as a user account, become that user then do a 'crontab -e' and make the first line like:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php > /dev/null 2>&1

I had it in /etc/crontab
All seems to be fine now. Very very odd.