<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> collectd appears to be writing rrd files in<br>
> /var/lib/collectd/<a href="http://www.mysite.com" target="_blank">www.mysite.com</a><br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> opendir > (/var/lib/collectd/rrd): No such file or directory at<br>
> ../lib/Collectd/Graph/Common.pm line 263<br>
<br>
</div>either directory is fine, but they have to match.<br>
<br>
By default the RRDtool plugin uses the …/collectd/rrd directory and the<br>
CSV plugin uses the …/collectd/csv directory, so both plugin can be<br>
active at the same time without getting in each other's way.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understand the usefulness of the rrd/csv split. I think my misunderstanding comes from that all 'bits' reading the rrd files effectively assume the the <Plugin rrdtools> block in collectd.conf has been configured, when in fact it is commented out after install (and the default dir is just /var/lib/collectd). I had missed this configuration step.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">
> (this feels like the wrong place to me?).<br>
<br>
</div>Why's that? It's data written at run-time, so $localstatedir (i.e. /var)<br>
is the right place for this.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not disagreeing with /var. Actually I'm not disagreeing at all. Mistakenly I assumed that things would be logged in /var/log, not /var/lib. But I see that they are library files (database files, in fact). System administration doesn't come naturally to me, sorry.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
> Am I nearly there?<br>
<br>
Yeah, I think so ;)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Forever reaching for that unattainable nirvana... :)</div><div><br></div></div>