[collectd] Collectd on CentOS always broken?

[O G]

Hi Travis,
 
Thanks for replying!  I'm using this minimalistic collectd.conf:
####
 Hostname    "localhost"
FQDNLookup   true
BaseDir     "/opt/collectd/var/lib/collectd"
PIDFile     "/opt/collectd/var/run/collectd.pid"
PluginDir   "/opt/collectd/lib/collectd"
TypesDB     "/opt/collectd/share/collectd/types.db"
#Interval     10
#Timeout      2
#ReadThreads  5
 
LoadPlugin syslog
LoadPlugin logfile
<Plugin logfile>
        LogLevel info
        File "/tmp/collectd.log"
        Timestamp true
        PrintSeverity true
</Plugin>
<Plugin syslog>
        LogLevel info
</Plugin>
 
LoadPlugin cpu
####
 
I've now also compiled and installed collectd 5.1.0 by hand (configure, make, make install) on "Amazon Linux AMI" (something based on RedHat, it seems, since it has yum) and I got the exact same error message.  So I'm starting to suspect I'm doing something wrong with Collectd.
 
Also:
# /opt/collectd/sbin/collectd -help
...
Builtin defaults:
  Config file       /opt/collectd/etc/collectd.conf
  PID file          /opt/collectd/var/run/collectd.pid
  Plugin directory  /opt/collectd/lib/collectd
  Data directory    /opt/collectd/var/lib/collectd        <== nothing shows up here or in /opt/collectd/var/log/
collectd 5.1.0, http://collectd.org/
 
I've tried starting Collectd like this:
# /opt/collectd/sbin/collectd -C /opt/collectd/etc/collectd.conf
 
As well we like this:
# /opt/collectd/sbin/collectdmon -c /opt/collectd/etc/collectd.conf
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks!
Otis
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Travis Crowder <travis.crowder at spechal.com>
To: O G <otis_junk at yahoo.com>
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [collectd] Collectd on CentOS always broken?

On 4/21/2012 11:25 PM, O G wrote:
> Hello,
>   Is there a version of CentOS with a working Collectd?
> I have tried several CentOS 5.* and 6.* versions where I installed Collectd with yum install collectd and each of them had a non-working Collectd.
>   This is a common error message I'd find in /var/log/messages:
>   Filter subsystem: Built-in target `write': Dispatching value to all write plugins failed with status 2 (ENOENT). Most likely this means you didn't load any write plugins
>   Of course, there were plugins in collectd.conf that write stuff to filesytem.
>     Is there a version of CentOS with a working Collectd?
>   Thanks,
> Otis
> 
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I use Collectd exclusively on CentOS servers; CentOS 5 and CentOS 6.  I install via YUM and build from source without issue.

Can you post your collectd.conf from /etc/ or /opt/collectd/etc ?

-Travis