[Orca-users] Re: Miserable install problems

[mark.langkau at pbmplus.com]

Darren,

Thanks for the quick tip. I'll give it a try and keep you posted. I
should also point out that I think Blair's program is terrific. (It's
just 'me' that is miserable at the moment ;-)

Has anyone compiled an installation FAQ? I see there are orcallator.se
and .cfg files for download from the ORCA home page. Do I need to use
those instead of what ships with the orca-0.26.tar.gz file?

Cheers,
Mark

--- In orca-users at egroups.com, "Darren Kukulka" <darren at b...> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> I tend not to use the startup script provided with Orca... try this 
> S99ORCA in /etc/rc2.d  ;
> 
> umask 022
> rm -r /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg.lock
> /usr/local/bin/start_orcallator
> /usr/local/bin/orca -v /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg &
> 
> Make sure you kill any orca processes running before you try this...
> 
> Orca installation sure is fun huh (yeah, right).
> 
> Cheers,
> Darren
> 
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> 
> --- In orca-users at egroups.com, Mark Langkau <mark.langkau at p...>
wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Everyone:
> > 
> > I'm having a miserable time installing Orca. I did install it
last 
> year
> > and had it running for several months (stopped in August). Now I 
> need to
> > 
> > re-implement it in a hurry to gather performance stats for a 
> capacity
> > planning meeting next week.
> > 
> > The system is a Sun E5500,  Solaris 2.7, Orca 0.26.  I have 
> archived and
> > 
> > removed the old Orca installation, and I have reinstalled both
the 
> SE
> > toolkit and Orca several times - with no luck. I never see any
data
> > files created. Do I need to download a different orcallator.cfg 
> or .se
> > file from Blair's site, or should I be able to use what ships with
> > orca-0.26.tar.gz?
> > 
> > Any hints and tips would be greatly appreciated. When Orca was 
> running
> > last year, it provided valuable information. I sure would like to 
> get
> > this running again;-)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> > =========================================================
> > 
> > Here are the errors I'm getting.:
> > 
> > # start_orcallator
> > Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501/
> > Using www access log file /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
> > Starting logging
> > #
> > # bin/orca -v -v -v lib/orcallator.cfg
> > Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
> > bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file
> > `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No
such
> > file or directory
> > Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Jan 18
15:50:35
> > 2001.
> > bin/orca: warning: no files found for `find_files' for `group
> > orcallator' in `lib/orcallator.cfg'.
> > bin/orca: no data source files found.
> >  RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> > 3824 4424  0.1        0:00     root 29393 /bin/perl
> > Current running time is 0:00 minutes.
> > #
> > # orcallator_running
> > Now in /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator
> > /usr/local/bin/orcallator_running: e5501/percol-2001-01-18 does
not
> > exist.
> > #
> > ====================================================
> > And here's a portion of my config file:
> > 
> > # Orca configuration file for orcallator files.
> > 
> > # base_dir is prepended to the paths find_files, html_dir,
rrd_dir,
> > # and state_file only if the path does not match the regular
> > # expression ^\\?\.{0,2}/, which matches /, ./, ../, and \./.
> > base_dir                /usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator
> > 
> > # rrd_dir specifies the location of the generated RRD data files.
> > rrd_dir                 .
> > 
> > # state_file specifies the location of the state file that
remembers
> > # the modification time of each source data file.
> > state_file              orca.state
> > 
> > # html_dir specifies the top of the HTML tree created by Orca.
> > html_dir                /usr/local/apache/htdocs/orca
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > group orcallator {
> > find_files
> >
/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d
> {4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?
> > 
> > column_description      first_line
> > date_source             column_name timestamp
> > date_format             %s
> > interval                300
> > reopen                  1
> > filename_compare        sub {
> >                           my ($ay, $am, $ad) = $a =~
> > /-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
> >                           my ($by, $bm, $bd) = $b =~
> > /-(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)/;
> >                           if (my $c = (( $ay       <=>  $by) ||
> >                                        ( $am       <=>  $bm) ||
> >                                        (($ad >> 3) <=> ($bd >> 
> 3)))) {
> >                             return 2*$c;
> >                           }
> >                           $ad <=> $bd;
> >                         }
> > }