[Orca-users] Re: Orca stopped logging....

[Blair Zajac]

Actually, you can pass a number as an argument to orcallator.se and it
will use this as the number of seconds between intervals:

/opt/RICHPse/bin/se -DWATCH_OS  lib/orcallator.se 5

Blair

"D.C.Lawie" wrote:
> 
> From: "D.C.Lawie" <duncanl at demon.net>
> 
> Michael DuFresne wrote:
> 
> > > 2.  Check that you have files in /var/orca/orcallator/* which cover dates since
> > > 5 September.  If so, then orcallator.se is still collecting data OK.
> >
> > No dates after 5 September. But I noticed something odd. There is a file
> > for orcallator.pid dated 6 September. If I delete that file and restart
> > orcallator, orcallator.pid gets re-written as 6 September.
> 
> Freaky.  I don't understand why this is happening, but this shows the problem is with
> orcallator.se not orca.  On my systems, the date stamp on the pid file indicates when
> orcallator was started.  I assume that the date on the system is correct :-).
> 
> Try running orcallator from the command line as follows:
> 
> /opt/RICHPse/bin/se -DWATCH_OS  lib/orcallator.se
> 
> It  should eventually start spitting out data to stdout.  ( You could hack
> orcallator.se and change
> #define SAMPLE_INTERVAL         300
> to a smaller number (like 30 seconds) to get data sooner, but don't forget to set it
> back. )
> 
> If that's OK, I'm starting to grasp at straws.
> 
> ? Check permissions on /var/orca/orcallator directory tree.
> 
> >
> >
> > > 3.  Try running ./bin/orca -o -v ../lib/orcallator.cfg and checking what it
> > > says.  You may need to run ulimit -n 256 (or up to 1024)  first if you get the
> > > too many open files error.
> >
> > I have been setting descriptors at 256 on the command line thus far.
> > Here is what i get on the scrren for '-o -v':
> >
> > Orca version 0.23 using RRDs version 0.99031.
> > Creating orca.gif.
> > Creating rrdtool.gif.
> > Loading state from `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state'.
> > Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Sep 30 04:17:45
> > 1999.
> > /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/dlea9/percol-1999-07-28
> > ~all dates inclusive through
> > /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/dlea9/percol-1999-09-05
> > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/orca line 533.
> > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/orca line 533.
> > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/bin/orca line 533.
> > Loading new data from dlea9.
> > Saving state into `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state'.
> > Updating GIFs.
> > Creating HTML files in `/www/'.
> > Running time is 0:06 minutes.
> 
> This looks fine, given the above.  It is looking for new data, not finding any and
> tidying up happily.
> 
> Good luck,
> Duncan.
> 
> --
> D.C. Lawie
> duncanl at demon.net
> MIS - Demon Internet
> 
> "The _bless_ operator simply uses the reference in order to find the thingy."
> Programming Perl p292.
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