[Orca-users] Re: orcallator.se runs, but no output

[Mark Langkau]

Hi Blair,

I'm using /usr/local/bin/start_orcallator. OUTDIR gets set to
"/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501" and the orcallator.pid file *does*
get written there. I explicitly changed OUTDIR to this path in the script,
but still no luck. Then I deleted the e5501 (hostname) dir to see if it got
created when start_orcallator ran. It did.

Script is running as root, and I have made that dir world writable (not a
good security thing, but I wanted to eliminate permissions as a cause for
no data files). After running "start_orcallator" I see the start up
messages, but nothing after that (no output to stdout).

I'm not trying to do anything fancy. Everything runs on one system - no nfs
mounts. Straight "out-of-the-box" install of SE and Orca. To configure Orca
I created a script with the config options, so I could later see how I ran
configure. Here is that script:
==================================
# more run-config.sh

#!/bin/sh

#Here is how we configured Orca:
PREFIX=/usr/local

./configure --prefix=$PREFIX \
            --bindir=$PREFIX/bin \
            --libdir=$PREFIX/lib \
            --mandir=$PREFIX/man \
            --with-rrd-dir=$PREFIX/var/orca/rrd \
            --with-orcallator-dir=$PREFIX/var/orca/orcallator \
            --with-html-dir=/usr/local/apache/htdocs/orca \
            --with-ncsa-log=/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
#
=================================

Here's what I see:

# start_orcallator
Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501/
Using www access log file /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log
Creating /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501/
Starting logging
#
#ps
   PID TTY      TIME CMD
 21795 pts/5    0:00 sh
 23736 pts/5    0:00 ps
 23694 pts/5    0:25 se.sparc
#
# orcallator_running
Now in /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator
/usr/local/bin/orcallator_running: e5501/percol-2001-01-21 does not exist.
#

Sorry to be such a pest, but I'm really stumped. Thanks a bunch for your
help!

Cheers,
Mark Langkau

Blair Zajac wrote:

> How are you starting orcallator.se?  Using the start_orcallator.sh
> script?  This sets the OUTDIR environmental variable which is used
> by orcallator.se.
>
> If the OUTDIR environmental variable is not set or is empty, then
> orcallator.se will output to standard output, otherwise it'll create
> an output log file in the OUTDIR directory.
>
> Please check to see what OUTDIR is set to.
>
> To run just orcallator.se you don't need to create the rrd directory.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> mark.langkau at pbmplus.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > The hostname directory does exist, and the "orcallator.pid" file gets
> > written there. I'll try creating one in the rrd directory too.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> > --- In orca-users at egroups.com, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at t...> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > you need to create the 'hostname' directory for oracallator.se to
> > write
> > > into. ie create directory /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/e5501 then
> > > everything should be fine. You _may_ need to create a corresponding
> > rrd
> > > directory as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > martin
> > >
> > > Mark Langkau wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I've installed orca-0.26.tar.gz on a Sun e5500 with Solaris 7.
> > > >
> > > > orcallator.se runs, but does not create any output (even after
> > running
> > > > more than an hour). Any ideas about what would cause orcallator
> > not to
> > > > make any data files?  I have installed the SE toolkit and it works
> > (we
> > > > use xoom.se), and orca finds it during configuration.
> > > >
> > > > Output of "orcallator_running" :
> > > >
> > > > # orcallator_running
> > > > Now in /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator
> > > > /usr/local/bin/orcallator_running: e5501/percol-2001-01-18 does
> > not
> > > > exist
> > > > #
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Mark Langkau