RRA's not being created

[ghideon]

This is an Ubuntu server install, running cactid and cacti compiled from source, version 0.8.6j. Cacti had the Plugin patch and the 1min polling interval patch applied.

I can get cactid to run and fetch data via the command line, and I can see the data sitting in the DB by doing a a select * on poller_output. I see output in the log.

I do not see the RRAs being created tho, either when run from the command line or via crontab. With the logging all the way up, I do not see anything in the cacti log. I do see data of course, when I run cactid manually.

1) Should I see RRAs being created via a CLI cactid run?

2) Are the 1minute polling interval patch (or the plugin patch) known to cause issues like this?

3) What else can I do to try and figure out where in the RRA creation process it's breaking? Perms on the rra directory are cactiuser.root, same as the log directory.

Any hints?

[TheWitness]

You must run poller.php, which forks cactid, to update RRD files. Ohterwise, maybe a permissions probem.

TheWitness

[ghideon]

I should have been more clear. Running poller.php, either manually as cactiuser or via cron as cactiuser, doesn't result in anything. I don't get anything in the log file. So I guess that's my real problem. My rra directory is at /var/www/cacti/rra. It should/would error if it couldn't find it, or had the wrong perms, correct?

Thanks

[TheWitness]

Have you set logging to DEBUG? Have you run poller.php manually as both root and cactiuser?

TheWitness

[ghideon]

Indeed. Set it to debug, turned all the checkboxes on.

Running poller.php both as cactiuser and root doesn't do anything. No change to the empty log file, no creation of a logfile if it's not there.

This has got to be some weird Ubuntu thing.

[ghideon]

Is the RRDTool Default Font Path required?

[TheWitness]

Only for viewing the graphs. Not for generating the RRD file.

TheWitness