Hi

thanks all for help but still having no luck!

its creating the temp txt file, but the files BLANK and EMPTY and STILL no data being inserted?

also when i run the command with the 2>&1 after I’m getting 'Ambiguous output redirect.’ as the output when run manually?

any more ideas?

regards

Simon

On 19 Oct 2016, at 4:58 pm, Joseph Zancocchio joseph@nyi.net wrote:

Issues with scripts that run fine when invoked manually from the command line but fail when run by cron almost always seem to come down to an issue with the $PATH in cron's environment.

Try removing the STDOUT redirect to /dev/null on the cronjob, and after it runs again, check /var/mail/root for the output of the cronjob (or just run `mail` as root). Whatever error is thrown when running from within cron's environment should then be there. Alternatively, you can change the redirect to point to /tmp/debugcron.txt or something and check that file for the output, as well. You may have to redirect both STDERR and STDOUT to the file... e.g.:

*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/www/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 2>&1 >> /tmp/debugcron.txt On 10/19/2016 11:28 AM, Simon Smith wrote:

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Hi All,

this is a random question, has anyone got observium running correctly on freebsd?

managed to get it all setup and running, panels fine, add devices fine, poll device manually, etc

only issue I’m having is i can’t get the cronjob working for every 5mins?

i can see from the cron log in /var/log its running the poller correctly

Oct 18 04:05:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[49554]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50385]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50387]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51227]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51228]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52076]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52079]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52917]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52918]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53752]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53753]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null)

however no data gets inserted into the db, but if i run the command manually as root, it inserts stuff fine?

the only thing i can think of is the php is running apache which then runs as www not root

would this have an issue maybe?

regards

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Paths to binary are weird in Freebsd, I had issues with that, have to create some symlinks. Try to run cron lines by hand, one by one.

2016-10-21 10:31 GMT-02:00 Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org:

1995 called and asked for its choice of OS back. :p

I assume this is probably weirdy permissions stuff. Didn't Joe holden reply yet? I know he's run on freebsd recently. He's peculiar like that too. :D

Adam.

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On 21 Oct 2016, at 10:30, Simon Smith simonsmith5521@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi

thanks all for help but still having no luck!

its creating the temp txt file, but the files BLANK and EMPTY and STILL no data being inserted?

also when i run the command with the 2>&1 after I’m getting 'Ambiguous output redirect.’ as the output when run manually?

any more ideas?

regards

Simon

On 19 Oct 2016, at 4:58 pm, Joseph Zancocchio joseph@nyi.net wrote:

Issues with scripts that run fine when invoked manually from the command line but fail when run by cron almost always seem to come down to an issue with the $PATH in cron's environment.

Try removing the STDOUT redirect to /dev/null on the cronjob, and after it runs again, check /var/mail/root for the output of the cronjob (or just run `mail` as root). Whatever error is thrown when running from within cron's environment should then be there. Alternatively, you can change the redirect to point to /tmp/debugcron.txt or something and check that file for the output, as well. You may have to redirect both STDERR and STDOUT to the file... e.g.:

*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/www/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 2>&1 >> /tmp/debugcron.txt

On 10/19/2016 11:28 AM, Simon Smith wrote:

Hi All,

this is a random question, has anyone got observium running correctly on freebsd?

managed to get it all setup and running, panels fine, add devices fine, poll device manually, etc

only issue I’m having is i can’t get the cronjob working for every 5mins?

i can see from the cron log in /var/log its running the poller correctly

Oct 18 04:05:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[49554]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50385]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50387]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51227]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51228]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52076]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52079]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52917]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52918]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53752]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53753]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null)

however no data gets inserted into the db, but if i run the command manually as root, it inserts stuff fine?

the only thing i can think of is the php is running apache which then runs as www not root

would this have an issue maybe?

regards

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Hi,

my binaries are all set the same as urs and still no luck :(

if i run '/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2' manually it works fine :)

but again the ‘/etc/crontab', and 'crontab -e' just doesn’t work and no idea why?

the only thing i can think of it the freebsd I’m running is inside a jail on freenas

as i wanted to move our monitoring off our servers to our nas so then when we restart servers, etc, we have no downtime on monitoring

regards

Simon

On 21 Oct 2016, at 3:03 pm, Eduardo Schoedler listas@esds.com.br wrote:

Also, I had to specify the path of multiple files in config.php:

$config['svn'] = "/usr/local/bin/svn"; $config['git'] = "/usr/local/bin/git"; $config['mtr'] = "/usr/local/sbin/mtr"; $config['fping'] = "/usr/local/sbin/fping"; $config['fping6'] = "/usr/local/sbin/fping6"; $config['neato'] = "/usr/local/bin/neato"; $config['nmap'] = "/usr/local/bin/nmap"; $config['rrdtool'] = "/usr/local/bin/rrdtool"; $config['snmpget'] = "/usr/local/bin/snmpget"; $config['snmpbulkget'] = "/usr/local/bin/snmpbulkget"; $config['snmpwalk'] = "/usr/local/bin/snmpwalk"; $config['snmpbulkwalk'] = "/usr/local/bin/snmpbulkwalk"; $config['snmptranslate'] = "/usr/local/bin/snmptranslate"; $config['unflatten'] = "/usr/local/bin/unflatten";

2016-10-21 12:01 GMT-02:00 Eduardo Schoedler listas@esds.com.br:

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Paths to binary are weird in Freebsd, I had issues with that, have to create some symlinks. Try to run cron lines by hand, one by one.

2016-10-21 10:31 GMT-02:00 Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org:

...

1995 called and asked for its choice of OS back. :p

I assume this is probably weirdy permissions stuff. Didn't Joe holden reply yet? I know he's run on freebsd recently. He's peculiar like that too. :D

Adam.

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On 21 Oct 2016, at 10:30, Simon Smith simonsmith5521@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi

thanks all for help but still having no luck!

its creating the temp txt file, but the files BLANK and EMPTY and STILL no data being inserted?

also when i run the command with the 2>&1 after I’m getting 'Ambiguous output redirect.’ as the output when run manually?

any more ideas?

regards

Simon

On 19 Oct 2016, at 4:58 pm, Joseph Zancocchio joseph@nyi.net wrote:

Issues with scripts that run fine when invoked manually from the command line but fail when run by cron almost always seem to come down to an issue with the $PATH in cron's environment.

Try removing the STDOUT redirect to /dev/null on the cronjob, and after it runs again, check /var/mail/root for the output of the cronjob (or just run `mail` as root). Whatever error is thrown when running from within cron's environment should then be there. Alternatively, you can change the redirect to point to /tmp/debugcron.txt or something and check that file for the output, as well. You may have to redirect both STDERR and STDOUT to the file... e.g.:

*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/www/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 2>&1 >> /tmp/debugcron.txt

On 10/19/2016 11:28 AM, Simon Smith wrote:

Hi All,

this is a random question, has anyone got observium running correctly on freebsd?

managed to get it all setup and running, panels fine, add devices fine, poll device manually, etc

only issue I’m having is i can’t get the cronjob working for every 5mins?

i can see from the cron log in /var/log its running the poller correctly

Oct 18 04:05:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[49554]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50385]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:10:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[50387]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51227]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:15:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[51228]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52076]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:20:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52079]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52917]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:25:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[52918]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53752]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Oct 18 04:30:00 observium /usr/sbin/cron[53753]: (root) CMD (/opt/observium/poller-wrapper.py 2 >> /dev/null)

however no data gets inserted into the db, but if i run the command manually as root, it inserts stuff fine?

the only thing i can think of is the php is running apache which then runs as www not root

would this have an issue maybe?

regards

Simon _______________________________________________ observium mailing list observium@observium.org http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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