This is an ebuild for Tobi Oetiker's smokeping rrd tool. Smokeping measures latency, latency distribution, and packet loss in a network, presenting the results in graphs embedded in a web page. I feel that it goes best in net-analyzer/smokeping. I have also attached a small file, smokeping-1.31.gentoo.tar.gz, which contains configuration files specific to gentoo. Effectively, it's just a few patches, but since I don't know how to create patches I made it like this.
Created attachment 41457 [details] ebuild for smokeping-1.31
Created attachment 41458 [details] Gentoo-specific config files Files that must be changed from the distribution versions in order for smokeping to run right out of the box.
Created attachment 41459 [details] Initial ChangeLog
please do not attach tarballs. Please attach the contents of the tarball as plaintext files.
Created attachment 41486 [details] Smokeping cgi script modified for gentoo
Created attachment 41487 [details] Smokeping config file modified for gentoo
Created attachment 41488 [details] smokeping perl script modified for gentoo
No prob, les voila. In any case, the tarball was just there because I was hoping to get it into a mirror since my server isn't reliable. (If you've got the time, I'm curios why tarballs aren't accepted.)
Its much easier to modify/read/manage from a bug monitoring point of view. If you have to change just one file, you don't have to repackage the tarball again, etc etc. Just many reasons. Thanks for the ebuild tho! I'm busies than I can be right now, so I can't unfortunately look at it right now. Just be patient tho, we'll eventually get to it :) Cheers!
Comment on attachment 41458 [details] Gentoo-specific config files No need for the tarball
Hate to bug you, but will this be put into portage soon?
Created attachment 47420 [details, diff] smokeping 1.34 patch, made w/o knowledge of bug 66980 I've been hacking on this ebuild off and on for about a year. Pretty much the same idea.
Created attachment 48266 [details, diff] smokeping version v1.34 and v1.36 into /usr/portage/net-analyzer New version of smokeping. NOTE!!! I implemented alot of GLEP 11 in the two ebuilds in this patch. I think you'll find it quite easy to test out.
Here is how to experiment/test with this ebuild. 1) Download the patch http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=48266&action=view into /usr/portage/net-analyzer. (check for more recent if I find bugs) 2) patch -p1 <smokeping_1.36.patch 3) emerge smokeping 4) config smokeping by editing /etc/smokeping 5) /etc/init.d/smokeping start 6) browse to http://localhost/cgi-perl/smokeping.cgi 7) /etc/init.d/smokeping stop 8) emerge --unmerge smokeping 9) emerge sync - that will clean out the patch from your /usr/portage please post feedback.
I'm trying out the ebuild mentioned above. Smokeping will run for a couple minutes, then die with no error logged. Is this expected? Do I need to run it via a cron job or is it supposed to continue running as a daemon?
I've isolated the problem with smokeping dying. It hapens when smokeping attempts to send a notification email. The error I'm getting in the log is this: Can't call method "mail" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Smokeping.pm line 144. In sub sendmail ($$$) my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($cfg->{General}{mailhost}); $smtp->mail($from); <---- dies here because $smtp is not defined. Two more things: 1. There is a new version out, 1.37 2. Should the configuration files be put in a subdirectory of /etc/, like /etc/smokeping/
Looks like I missed a dependency on "dev-perl/libnet" in my ebuild. I'll try to post new patch file with that in there and the even newer v1.38 real soon. As for question #2, I'd have to defer to a gentoo developer to review the layout.
Created attachment 50564 [details, diff] smokeping v1.34, v1.36, and v1.38 into /usr/portage/net-analyzer
Updated testing instructions. 1) cd /usr/portage/net-analyzer wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=50564&action=view mv attatchment* smokeping_1.38.patch 2) patch -p1 <smokeping_1.38.patch 3) emerge smokeping 4) configure smokeping by editing /etc/smokeping 5) /etc/init.d/smokeping start 6) browse to http://localhost/cgi-perl/smokeping.cgi after restarting apache 7) /etc/init.d/smokeping stop 8) emerge --unmerge smokeping 9) emerge sync - that will clean out the patch from your /usr/portage please post feedback (thanks Shawn!).
* Also edit /etc/conf.d/apache2 and add -D PERL to APACHE2_OPTS chmod: invalid mode string: `smokeping:smokeping' i guess that should be chown
Yes, chown.
Created attachment 52823 [details] ebuild using Apache Package Refresh guidelines During the March 5th gentoo bugday, I was informed about the Apache Package Refresh effort. http://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar/doc/apache-package-refresh.html This ebuild would be used in addition to the 1.34, 1.36, and 1.38 ebuilds which are GLEP11-ish and contained in the prior patch file. This depends on mod_perl 2.0.0_r4.
Created attachment 52824 [details] ebuild using Apache Package Refresh guidelines fix type-o
The Apache Package Refresh version of the ebuild depends on bug 77551
any ebuilds for v2.x yet?
Created attachment 75167 [details] smokeping 2.0.5 ebuild Ebuild for latest version of smokeping, v2.0.5. Numerous little fixes. Added dump/restore functions to the init.d script, very handy.
Please remove the dependency on bug 77551. Now that the mod_perl v2.0.1 ebuild is checked into cvs, you can get smokeping running. You will need to put mod_perl into /etc/portage/package.keywords however.
# ebuild smokeping-2.0.5.ebuild install >>> md5 files ;-) smokeping-2.0.5.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/smokeping >>> md5 files ;-) files/config.dist >>> md5 files ;-) files/78_smokeping.conf >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-smokeping-2.0.5 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) smokeping-2.0.5.tar.gz >>> Checking smokeping-2.0.5.tar.gz's mtime... >>> WORKDIR is up-to-date, keeping... >>> It appears that smokeping is already compiled; skipping. >>> (clean to force compilation) >>> It appears that smokeping has already been tested; skipping. >>> Install smokeping-2.0.5 into /var/tmp/portage/smokeping-2.0.5/image/ category net-analyzer chown: `smokeping:smokeping': invalid user <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< HERE !!!! man: prepallstrip: strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded >>> Completed installing smokeping-2.0.5 into /var/tmp/portage/smokeping-2.0.5/image/
>>> Merging net-analyzer/smokeping-2.0.5 to / * Adding group 'smokeping' to your system ... * - Groupid: next available * Adding user 'smokeping' to your system ... * - Userid: 105 * Do not specify /bin/false yourself, use -1
A few pointers, regarding smokeping-2.0.5: - Unpacking tarballs is quite a pain. http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/attachments.txt - The header is generally three lines long. We have longdescription in metadata.xml and ChangeLog for additional information. http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/header.txt - You should use pkg_setup() where you used pkg_preinst(). pkg_preinst() is ran after src_install(). man 5 ebuild for details. - There is no need to declare src_unpack(). http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/mw-faq/redundant.txt - -1 is used instead of /bin/false to maintain compatibility with OSs like Gentoo/FBSD
Created attachment 77014 [details] smokeping 2.0.5 ebuild with edits Apologies about the tarball. Here are the edits. Looks like the einfo call in portage 2.1 skips leading blanks which hoses the ascii art...
Comment on attachment 77014 [details] smokeping 2.0.5 ebuild with edits change mime type
(In reply to comment #16) > 2. Should the configuration files be put in a subdirectory of /etc/, like > /etc/smokeping/ Generally we defer to upstream defaults for whether it's directly in /etc. If there is effectively no default and there are multiple config files, use a subdirectory. If it's just /etc/smokeping.conf, e.g., put it straight in /etc. On other notes, I'm a bit curious how those fowners and fperms calls work with webapp-config. I'd think stuff like webapp_serverowned should be involved somewhere. Also keywords should be set to ~arch for any tested architectures, so somebody doesn't accidentally add it to the tree straight in stable. =)
Created attachment 80042 [details] v2.0.7 of smokeping plus bug fixed perl-core/libnet Updated and tested smokeping-2.0.7 also fixed libnet it moved..
Smokeping 2.0.8 is out.
(In reply to comment #35) > Smokeping 2.0.8 is out. > 2.0.9 is out now. smokeping-2.0.9.tar.gz 14-Jul-2006 13:19 385K
net-analyzer/smokeping-2.0.9 is in CVS now, please sync in an hour or two to get it, enjoy! Best regards, CHTEKK.
