[collectd] exec plugin never runs, no errors reported

[Jacob Bisby]

You can recompile collectd with debug logging (LogLevel debug) support - it's a little annoying having to do so (rather than just getting a deb/rpm with it already enabled) but the logs are extremely verbose and very helpful for tracking down issues like this. I would suggest doing that first and seeing what you can find.

- Jacob Bisby
 

-----Original Message-----
From: collectd <collectd-bounces at verplant.org> On Behalf Of Lonni J Friedman
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2018 12:18 AM
To: collectd at verplant.org
Subject: [collectd] exec plugin never runs, no errors reported

Hello,
I'm running collectd-5.8.0 on a Linux server.  I recently added an Exec plugin which invokes a small python script that I wrote to capture weather data.  If I run the script manually, it behaves as expected, generating the following output over time:

$ /etc/collectd.d/get_weather.py
PUTVAL "hal/exec-weather/temperature-weather_level" interval=90 N:67.1 PUTVAL "hal/exec-weather/temperature-weather_level" interval=90 N:67.1 PUTVAL "hal/exec-weather/temperature-weather_level" interval=90 N:67.6


However, collectd never seems to run the plugin at all, and also isn't generating any errors.  I'm logging everything from collectd into its own dedicated log:

<Plugin logfile>
    LogLevel info
    File "/var/log/collectd.log"
    Timestamp true
    PrintSeverity true
</Plugin>

I have the following configured for the exec plugin:
<Plugin exec>
    Exec "netllama" "/etc/collectd.d/get_weather.py"
</Plugin>


When I (re)start collectd, I see the following in /var/log/collectd.log:

[2018-08-05 09:07:22] [info] plugin_load: plugin "exec" successfully loaded.

But no other messages related to the plugin, and the script itself is not running.  At this point, I'm at a loss how to debug further when nothing is being logged. Even if something was failing, shouldn't it log something somewhere?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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