I try to get munin up and running on a new Debian/Xen ISPConfig3 server. Munin can write data into the default htmldir, which is /var/www/munin. So that's ok. However after changing the htmldir within /etc/munin/munin.conf, munin can't write it's data into the directory i've defined. Here is the output of my current /etc/munin/munin.conf: cat /etc/munin/conf dbdir /var/lib/munin htmldir /var/www/www.example.com/web/munin logdir /var/log/munin rundir /var/run/munin After defining the new htmldir, i did: mkdir -p /var/www/example.com/web/munin chown munin:munin /var/www/example.com/web/munin /etc/init.d/munin-node restart I also did: chmod 755 /var/www/example.com/web/munin But no luck. Is there something i miss here? Do i need to create a specific setting in ISPConfig3 for the website? ***EDIT *** Here are some outputs of the munin log files: cat munin.graph.log Unable to graph /var/lib/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain-vmstat-sleep-g.rrd: Could not save png to '/var/www/www.example.com/web/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain-vmstat-week.png' cat munin-html.log Jan 29 16:25:05 - processing domain: localdomain Jan 29 16:30:06 - Starting munin-html, checking lock Jan 29 16:30:06 - could not copy style.css into htmldir Jan 29 16:30:06 - could not copy logo.png into htmldir Jan 29 16:30:06 - could not copy definitions.html into htmldir Jan 29 16:30:06 - processing domain: localdomain
Hi Falko, thanks for your reply. The output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 munin munin 4096 2010-01-30 13:33 . drwx--x--- 6 web2 client1 4096 2010-01-30 14:00 ..
Hans, Try using the true paths ( /var/client/clients...... ) I have munning up and running, and used the above paths
Thanks for your reply Edge, but i tried that also already. Munin can only put its data in /var/www/munin which is the default directory on Debian...
This is how my working munin.conf looks like: As you can see. For me it's working also working in /var/clients/client1/web1/web/monitoring
Hi Edge, thanks for your help. I think in principle the true paths are better indeed, so i changed it again. After changing, my configuration file, i did: /etc/init.d/munin-node restart Within /etc/munin/munin.conf, now i have: dbdir /var/lib/munin htmldir /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin logdir /var/log/munin rundir /var/run/munin Short after that a message appears in /var/mail/root, which says: Message-Id: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:05:06 +0000 (UTC) cp: accessing `/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin/': Permission denied cp: accessing `/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin/': Permission denied cp: accessing `/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin/': Permission denied Cannot mkdir /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin/example.com: Permission denied at /usr/share/munin/munin-html line 184. The output of: ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web/munin is: drwxr-xr-x 2 munin munin 4096 2010-01-30 13:33 . drwx--x--- 6 web2 client1 4096 2010-01-30 14:00 .. I don't understand why munin can't write its data into my htmldir. As far as i see it has to do something with the permissions, but what can i do? Maybe it has nothing to do with it, but did you also installed Jailkit or not?
Yes I do have Jailkit on my system. My ls -la /var/clients/client1/web1/web/monitoring Code: drwxr-xr-x 3 munin munin 4096 2009-03-04 21:40 . drwxrwxrwx 28 web1 client1 4096 2010-01-30 17:46 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 2555 2009-03-04 21:40 definitions.html -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 1677 2010-01-31 09:25 index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 munin munin 12288 2009-10-27 23:25 xxxx.info -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 473 2009-03-04 21:40 logo.png -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 3472 2009-03-04 21:40 style.css
Ok, then both we have Jailkit installed. For munin:munin we have the same, which is: drwxr-xr-x For web1:client1 you have drwxrwxrwx (chmod 777), while i have: drwx--x--- which was generated automaticly by ISPConfig 3. As far as i see, this is the only difference, isn't it ? I hope there is another solution, because i try to avoid chmod 777. I also would like to know, which options did you enable for your website in ISPConfig 3?
No.. It's 755 (created and owned by Munin) All I have set for that site is PHP to Fast-CGI, and site is Active.
Hi Edge, I found the solution! I did: chmod 755 /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web which makes the way open to the subdirectory munin. Now it works. So after executing the command ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web i have the following output: drwxr-xr-x 3 munin munin 4096 Jan 31 13:20 . drwxr-xr-x 5 web2 client1 4096 Jan 31 13:14 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 2555 Jan 31 13:20 definitions.html -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 1700 Jan 31 13:20 index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 munin munin 12288 Jan 31 13:20 localdomain -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 473 Jan 31 13:20 logo.png -rw-r--r-- 1 munin munin 3472 Jan 31 13:20 style.css As you can see drwxr-xr-x stands for chmod 755. I still think that you're mistaken, because i'm sure that drwxrwxrwx means chmod 777. So i I think it is better for you to chown te directory web also to chmod 755, because it's more secure!
Good that you got it working. My FTP program and putty both show me that the directory is set to 755. I've no clue what's going on here.
thanks a bunch for this! setting persmissions on the /web/ folder to 755 also did the trick for me and now it works.
Yeah for it it works also finally 6 ours searching and messing around with settings in the conf file. Im on debian 6 with munin version 1.4.5 In the munin.conf dbdir /var/lib/munin htmldir /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/monitoring logdir /var/log/munin rundir /var/run/munin # Where to look for the HTML templates tmpldir /etc/munin/templates Give munin acces mkdir -p /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/monitoring chown munin:munin /var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/monitoring /etc/init.d/munin-node restart Make sure to set the /web folder to: 755 then /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
