[Orca-users] Orca error messages

[David Michaels]

Cynthia's right -- you should get the r529 snapshot.  We really need to 
make a 1.0 release or something, and get rid of that 'latest stable'.  
Or else make r529 'stable' :)  But, all in good time.  Meanwhile:

Once you pull down that r529 version and get it built, you'll need to 
update your orcallator.cfg to match your environment.  Some things 
you'll want to set are:

    * base_dir -- the base directory that gets used by find_files,
      html_dir, and rrd_dir (the file comments explain this)
    * find_times -- these are the times of the day orca will crunch new
      data.  I think.
    * warn_email -- where to send  warning emails when things get weird
    * html_page_header, and html_top_title, and html_page_footer -- to
      customize your page a little
    * find_files -- a path with a regular expression that will tell Orca
      where to find all your files, and what parts of the filenames
      correspond to the date.  This is the tricky one, especially if
      you're new to regular expressions -- and these regular expressions
      are pretty complicated!  Here's what the default looks like:

      /npd/pub/orca/var/orca/orcallator/(.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:-\d{3,})?(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?

      I won't explain every little piece, unless you want me to, but all
      you really need to worry about is the "english" stuff at the
      front.  Replace /npd/pub/orca/var/orca/orcallator with something
      that makes sense for your environment.  Typically, it'll be your
      orca install directory followed by var/orca/orcallator.  In fact,
      if you have your base_dir set right, you might only need the
      expression part, like:

      (.*)/(?:(?:orcallator)|(?:percol))-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}(?:-\d{3,})?(?:\.(?:Z|gz|bz2))?

      (because base_dir will get automatically prepended to that string,
      since it doesn't start with /, ./, ../, or ./. )

Hope this helps!
--Dragon

Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> Bill, from the message there are a couple of things going on. I am not
> sure what "Argument "2.121_08" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at
> /usr/local/bin/orca line 29.' means but futher down the message it
> says there were no files to process. That might be because of
> misconfiguration of the find_files parameter or it could be because
> you tried to run the data processing part of Orcaware without first
> running one of the data collectors.
>
> But sadly, most of the above is beside the point. The snapshot listed
> on the web site as "latest stable" is woefully out of date. From the
> output, I can see that is the version you currently have
> installed. Please start your install again using the Subversion
> snapshot at http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/snapshots/. If you have
> any problems with the install or running it, don't hesitate to post
> back to the list for help.
>
>
> Blair, any reason not to remove the "latest stable" link to verson
> 0.27? It is a rare post to this list that doesn't get the advice
> "please upgrade to a recent version" and although there have been some
> struggles posted about some Solaris setups, the subversion snapshot
> usually seems stable enough for general use.
>
>
> Quoting Bill Witt <webslave65 at yahoo.com>:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>    
>>   I?m new to the Unix world and my boss asked me to install Orca. I must have spent almost a week trying to get everything compile and finally I?m getting this message when I do a
>>
>> # /usr/local/bin/orca -v /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg
>>    
>>   (root at xxx01): /usr/local/bin/orca -v /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg
>>   Argument "2.121_08" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at /usr/local/bin/orca line 29.
>>   Orca version 0.27 using RRDs version 1.000401 at Thu Aug  9 08:47:17 2007.
>>   /usr/local/bin/orca: warning: cannot open state file `/usr/local/var/orca/rrd/orcallator/orca.state' for reading: No such file or directory
>>   Creating orca_logo.gif.
>>   Creating rrdtool_logo.gif.
>>   Creating rothschild_image_logo.png.
>>   Finding files and setting up data structures at Thu Aug  9 08:47:17 2007.
>>   /usr/local/bin/orca: warning: no files found for `find_files' for `group orcallator' in `/usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg'.
>>    RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
>>   5672 6984  0.3       00:00     root   455 /usr/local/bin/perl
>>   Current running time is 0:00 minutes.
>>   /usr/local/bin/orca: no data files found.  Make sure `find_files' parameter is set properly.
>>    
>>   I don?t know enough Unix yet and this is very frustrating for me but it?s also a learning experience.
>>   Please someone help me!!!!
>>    
>>   Thanks.
>>
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