Comments on: linprocfs - ain’t as easy as it sounds

By: Dan Langille

Dan Langille — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:36:49 +0000

Pav: I think this patch does the trick:

[dan@ngaio:/usr/local/share/cacti/scripts] $ diff -ru linux_memory.pl~ linux_memory.pl
--- linux_memory.pl~    Thu Feb 15 18:35:21 2007
+++ linux_memory.pl     Thu Feb 15 18:35:21 2007
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl

-open(PROCESS, "cat /proc/meminfo | grep -w $ARGV[0] |");
+open(PROCESS, "cat /compat/linux/proc/meminfo | grep -w $ARGV[0] |");
 foreach () {
        if ($_ =~ /($ARGV[0].*\s)(.*[0-9])( kB)/) {
                print $2;
[dan@ngaio:/usr/local/share/cacti/scripts] $

By: Dan Langille

Dan Langille — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:14:21 +0000

Just so long as I don’t use those FreeBSD programs…

I think it would be easier to patch the cacti scripts.

By: Pav Lucistnik

Pav Lucistnik — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:33:53 +0000

[root@supernews:/] # ln -s /usr/compat/linux/proc /proc

Uhh, now this is TOTALLY HARMFULL thing to do. Think about programs that expect FreeBSD style proc in /proc …

Sounds like Cacti needs to be ported to use FreeBSD specific harvesting methods.