CentOS 4.6 system setup
VMware Tools Installed
DAG yum repo configured
Install smokeping
http://lzheng.blogspot.com/2007/02/install-smokeping-via-yum.html
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=334&tag=rbxccnbtr1
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.4.1.tar.gz
tar xvzf smokeping-2.4.1.tar.gz
mv smokeping-2.4.1 /usr/local/smokeping
chown -R root:root /usr/local/smokeping
cd /usr/local/smokeping/bin
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
cd /usr/local/smokeping/etc/
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
cd /usr/local/smokeping/htdocs
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
# cpan
cpan> install HTTP::Request
Upgrade perl from 5.8.4 to 5.8.9
rpm -vhU http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Linux/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.9.825-i686-linux-glibc-2.3.2-288577.rpm
vi /usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping
change the first line to be as follows to reference latest version.
#!/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/bin -w