Help with Cricket [RedHat Linux, Apache2, Perl-5.8]?

Tue Jan 11 21:52:54 PST 2005

don't use cricket.  it's too hard.  use JFFNMS (http://www.jffnms.org/) or 
Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/), both of which are simple to set up (you end 
up configuring PHP and apache rather than hand-building all kinds of 
obnoxious cricket and/or rrd configs), _easily_ flexible, and can do 
monitor/graph lots of good stuff.  In my opinion JFFNMS whomps cacti in the 
long run, and will also give your nagios/big brother/whatever a run for its 
money.

-- henry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alvin Oga" <alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
To: "David Wolfskill" <david at catwhisker.org>
Cc: <baylisa at baylisa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Help with Cricket [RedHat Linux, Apache2, Perl-5.8]?

>
> hi ya david
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, David Wolfskill wrote:
>
>> An acquaintance mentioned that he wanted to have a better idea than
>> he currently had
> ..
>> It seemed to me that Cricket would likely be a simple approach that
>> would address his concerns quickly and easily.
>
> what are the requirements ??
> mrtg is also another popular look-n-see
>
>> It seems that I have grossly underestimated the challenge in store for
>> me in getting Cricket installed, configured, and running.
>
> for rh boxes ... you have 2 choices
> - install the precompiled binaries or use the original source
>
> - to install precompiled binaries
> rpm -ivh cricket-xxx.i386.rpm
>
> - sources
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/cricket
>
>
> - yahoo# "rpm cricket"  should find those
>
>> As noted, I had not had occasion to deal with Apache 2.x or suEXEC 
>> before.
>
> i think it's a bad thing to have suEXEC ..
> - simpler to move the binaries into cgi-bin
>
>> Those docs at www.apache.org indicate quite a few configuration options,
>
> too many options in my book
>
>> I found one Web site that indicated that if suEXEC were in use, one 
>> should
>> copy the CGI scripts to the "DocumentRoot" -- which strikes me as a
>> very strange thing to want to do, at best.
>
> yup, probably from one that puts everything in one directory and doesnt
> use /cgi-bin/
>
>> So:  is there some plausibly rational way to install Cricket on a RedHat
>> Linux system using Apache 2.0.46 as the Web server and with Perl 5.8 as
>
> if there are problems ... first thing i do is upgrade to the latest
> apps  ( apache-2.0.52 )
>
>> I needed to fetch the bits and pieces myself, which wasn't so terribly
>> bad, but then the generated Makefile for Time-HiRes-1.65 had all kinds
>> of bizarre syntax errors (odd number of "'" on a line; lines missing
>> chunks...).
>
> depending on what the syntax errors.. it could be a problem
>
> but sounds like the perl modules ( Time-HiRes ) is having problems
>
>> And, of course, I am very unfamiliar with RPM, so that
>> didn't help much.
>
> you can get around any rpm problem by using source code
> and compile the apps
>
>> But this stuff with suEXEC is the most perverse
>> aspect yet.  Eh; enough ranting....]
>
> :-)
>
> any other cricket errors ?? - or is it working ??
> in that it shows some pretty pics
>
> have fun
> alvin
> 