[collectd] network plugin not receiving any data

[Philipp Giebel]

Am Montag 21 Januar 2008 14:35:41 schrieb Sebastian Harl:
> Hi Philipp,
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:22:05PM +0100, Philipp Giebel wrote:
> > This morning I saw that there is an email plugin, now.. So I installed
> > v4.2.3 on my mailserver, configured and started it, but my "main
> > collectd" wasn't receiving any data from the mail-server. It still
> > received data from other servers using oder versions of collectd.
>
> The email plugin does not collect any values by itself. It is similar to
> the unixsock plugin - it collects values provided thru a UNIX socket.
> Values have to be fed to this interface from some external program. See
> contrib/SpamAssassin/ for an example plugin that feeds data from
> SpamAssassin to the email plugin.
>
> See collectd-email(5) for more details.

Yes, I know that.. The sa-plugin is installed and (should be) running.. But 
the problem isn't only with the email-module but with all 
collectd-installations sending their data to the main-server..

Cheers,
  Philipp