Starting the Install of Cacti

[jgassner2]

Hi,
I have been browsing these forums for a good network monitoring prorgram and I read that Cacti was a good one even thought it was tought to get set up. I can see why. Anyway, I am having trouble getting MySQL installed and running by the directions off of Cacti's website. The error I get by the log file is this:

060614 10:14:44 mysqld started
060614 10:14:45 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation.
InnoDB: See

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/InnoDB.html

InnoDB: for installation help.
InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to
InnoDB: the directory.
InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1
InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
060614 10:14:45 mysqld ended

If you have any idea on how to resolve this or have a better installation help file please let me know. I am just new to all of this.

Thanks

 

[PalmTest]

A few years back I have used (installed) Cacti.
I remember that Cacti is developped for Unix/Linux, so some paths do not exist on a Windows platform or are addressed different, e.g. Windows doesn't have a \etc directory. This results in a not working installation (it did in my case).
I have no experience in the current release of Cacti, but I can advise you to look closely at these (hidden) differences.
There even might be a Perl issue here.
Some operators which are used in regular expressions work slightly different in Unix/Linux and Windows Perl implementations.

 

[lgarner]

This looks like a MySQL error, not Cacti. Check the permissions. It might be as simple as the MySQL user not being able to create files in the data directory (typically /var/lib/mysql).

 

[jgassner2]

yeah, it was mysql giving me trouble. Apparently while I was following the directions off of their website and those were a little off. Once I got the rpm, put it in the /usr/local/ and YUM'd it everything went fine. Thanks for your help.