Installing rrdtool and related tools in Gentoo

booyaa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 85

Ok I have installed an RRDTOOL based network reporting system 3 times and I can get NO data into my rrdtool.

I believe this is a permissions issue.

Here is my question for the Guru's:

Someone please explain to me the proper procedure in installing these tools: rrdtool, apache, etc.. and with what USER?

I have 2 users on my system: root and my user. If I am logging in and operating as me is it standard practice to install these things as me? What group should my user ne in? Because I seem to have lots of issues with permissions after installing things as root with default users installed by the application - if that makes sense.

I apologize for being such a retard and needing further clarification - tired of raking my head

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

Did you use portage to install these programs?

booyaa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 85

No and let me make this a little more confusing. There is a tool called JKFlow that takes Cisco NetFlow packets and uses RRD to report them

Dude has an install script that manually installa all of this: rrdtool, apache, perl, flow-tools, flow-scan, etc

I want to run this script to get all of these tools on there

Can I and what user do I use?

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Networking & Security.

I've also changed the thread title - "Freaking out!!!" is not the most helpful title I've ever seen... :wink:

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kashani · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:

I'd use portage to do the work for you.

vi /etc/portage/package.keywords

booyaa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 85

Thanks for the reply, guys. Ok I emerged JKFlow after changing they keywords, then emerged rrdtool.. Everything seems to be working.. JKFlow, flow-capture and Flowscan.

I am even getting images from rrdtool, but no data. Here is my error:

graph failed: (rpn expressions without variables are not supported)

I believe that emerging rrdtool wass correct, somhere in flowscan my rrds arent being created.

If I was to install rrdtool by downloading/compiling/installing.. it will install it to where i unpack and compile...

Where does portage put it?

Zyrix · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 4

Not sure if your still trying to use JKFlow. But here's an article about using NetFlow data on Gentoo: