[collectd] Troubleshoot starting up collectd service

[Mark Moseley]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2011-04-20 17:33, Pander wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed collectd on Ubuntu server and would like to run its
>> service for receiving data from clients.
>>
>> I have enabled network plugin and uncommented and changed this part:
>>
>>         <Listen "127.0.0.1" "25826">
>>                 SecurityLevel Encrypt
>>                 AuthFile "/etc/collectd/passwd"
>>                 Interface "eth0"
>>         </Listen>
>>
>> and created the passwd file with 'username: password' as contents.
>
> and /var/log/syslog says nothing interesting:
>
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectd[32172]: Exiting normally.
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectd[32172]: collectd: Stopping 5 read threads.
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectd[32172]: rrdtool plugin: Shutting down
> the queue thread. This may take a while.
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectd[32172]: network plugin: Stopping
> receive thread.
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectd[32172]: network plugin: Stopping
> dispatch thread.
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectdmon[32171]: Info: collectd terminated
> with exit status 0
> Apr 20 17:34:12 hostname collectdmon[32171]: Info: shutting down collectdmon
> Apr 20 17:34:14 hostname collectd[5836]: Initialization complete,
> entering read-loop.
>
> and I have checked the ports with nmap (tcp and udp).
>
>> After restarting collectd I don't see a service on port 25826. What
>> should I do to find the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,

It might not like that you've configured it to try to listen to
127.0.0.1 on eth0. Does it listen correctly if you change Interface to
"lo"?