Re: honeyd 1.0 and rrdtool error

[Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>]

Use the --rrdtool-path to provide the correct path.  You might also
have to run --fix-webserver-permissions if you get 403s.

Niels.

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:18:54PM +0100, Olaf Gellert wrote:
> insideout wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've just installed honeyd-1.0 on RH 8 (not the latest I know, but all I
> > had on hand). I added the current  libevent, libdnet and rrdtool-1.0.49
> > as required, libpcap and python were already there. Everything appears
> > to have gone fine, but on starting honeyd I get the following repeating
> > in the logs:
> > honeyd: rrdtool_fork: execv(/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.49/): Permission denied
> > honeyd[825]: rrdtool returning errors - restarting.
> > honeyd[825]: Respawing rrdtool too quickly
> Just a short guess without having a closer look:
> The error message seems to say, that execv is trying
> to execute a directory (instead of a binary in this
> directory). Maybe I am wrong, but I could not resist.
>
> Olaf
>
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