Topic: Problems w/SARG and Sme7admin together..?

[Elliott]

I had initially installed SARG to get a look at how it worked. I like the way it shows the top users of the network. When the users complain that the network is slow I can now go in there and say that users X, and Y are utilizing 60% of the bandwidth. It's a great tool.

So after seeing how useful that info was to me I installed Sme7admin a few days later. I had been looking at it's charts as they built and a day or three later went back to see if the 1st weekly SARG chart had been built and it hadn't. Wondering why I looked at the dailys only to see that they had stopped building.

I *believe* they stopped once I installed Sme7admin. Going on that assumption I decided that the info in Sme7admin was more vaulable and that I might as well remove SARG or perhaps remove it and reinstall it to see if that allowed me to get both.

After removing SARG and doing the SME three step I suddenly was unable to login to either the admin or root account. The SME server was still functioning fine as was the Horde email but somehow the passwords for root and admin had changed.

I did a password resent this morning and am now able to get back into the management fine. I'm wondering if this was a result of the uninstallation of SARG or perhaps a combination of that and the fact that Sme7admin was installed. Has anyone else seen this?

Should I be able to run both SARG and Sme7admin on the box? Should I fear trying to reinstall SARG now?

Thanks.

[psoren]

I run them both with no problems.

Per

[bpivk]

Same here. And i removed sarg without any problems.

[Elliott]

Well I guess I'll just hope it was a fluke then. I'll try to reinstall SARG tonight. Thanks for the quick replies.

 

[cool34000]

Which rpms are you reinstalling ? There are 2 versions available...
MasterSleepy's version is now out of date so I recommend you to use the latest rpms available at dungog's !

[Elliott]

I was using dungog's version and was planning on reinstalling it but I think I now know what the problem was. At about the same time that I installed Sme7admin I also turned off the http proxy which I'm guessing is the very logs that SARG uses.

For some reason there were a few sites that just wouldn't come up when I had the proxy on (e.g. autos.msn.com) and since I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't come up (in any browser on any platform) I disabled http proxying to see if that solved it.

That did solve the problem. It really sucks because I'm sure that proxying was helping as my users do tend to hit a lot of the same types of sites.

There was one other problem where one of our programmers hosts aliases stopped working because if you just type in a name like web01 in the browser, the proxy adds .local.net to it which completely screws up the aliases purpose in the local hosts file.

Thanks for all of the responses.

[imcintyre]

Question from Linux noob

How do you uninstall Sarg. I have tried to install but think I must have goofed something up. It appears as though I should've used dungog's instead of Master Sleepy's

I pscp's it onto my sme server 7.1.2 at
login as: root
root@myserver's password:
Last login: Tue Mar 13 19:45:00
[root@myserver ~]# cd ..
[root@myserver /]# cd temp
[root@myserver]# ls
smeserver-sarg-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm

I then:
 

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[myserver]# rpm -ivh smeserver-sarg-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm

Everything seemed to go ok but not updating, started looking around and found I should remove this version and install as above. So rather than trouble shoot, I'd like to start fresh.

Thx in advance for your help.

[raem]

imcintyre

rpm -e smeserver-sarg

[imcintyre]

Thx, uninstalled Sleepy and installed dungog's and working well