poller writing to wrong rra and log directories

[wfaulk]

I just upgraded to 0.8.7d. I then realized that I forgot to apply the plugin architecture patch, so I created a new directory named cacti-0.8.7d-PA, applied the patch, then moved my cacti symlink from cacti-0.8.7d to cacti-0.8.7d-PA. Then I noticed that my RRAs weren't getting updated.

After a lot of searching, I found that the ones in the old cacti-0.8.7d/rra directory were getting upgraded. I verified that the correct poller.php was running, and found that while it was reading its config from the cacti-0.8.7d-PA directory, it was writing its RRA output to the cacti-0.8.7d directory. I also just found that the log file is still being written to (and read from) the cacti-0.8.7b directory that I just upgraded from. God knows where that is coming from. The database, maybe?

Actually, I just looked and found that it's all coming from the database. Maybe there shouldn't be a full path like that in the database, but only a relative path? For now, I've workarounded by renaming my directories, and not deleting my old logfile, but this should probably be fixed.

Also, while researching this, I found that include/global.php contains the line:

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$config["cacti_version"] = "0.8.7c";

which is probably not what you want.

[TheWitness]

This would appear to be 100% operator error. You need to take care when moving things around and take note that config.php should only have your database information in it. All other information is maintained in the global.php file.

If you upgraded from 0.8.6 to 0.8.7, you may have made this mistake. Sorry we could not have made that more clear for you.

TheWitness