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+++ b/net/cacti/MESSAGE
@@ -1,29 +1,23 @@
===========================================================================
-$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2011/11/22 22:23:13 tez Exp $
+$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.2 2014/01/16 21:10:00 tron Exp $
cacti is now installed.
To get cacti up and running asap, you have to complete these steps:
-- Install & Configure mysql-server
+- Install & Configure MySQL database server.
-- Add a cacti database and cactiuser user to mysql
+- Add a cacti database and cactiuser user to MySQL and create the cacti
+ database layout (${CACTIDIR}/cacti.sql) to MySQL:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cacti;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cacti.* TO 'cactiuser'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY 'cactiuser';
+ mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
+ mysql> USE cacti;
+ mysql> SOURCE ${CACTIDIR}/cacti.sql;
-- Add the cacti database layout (${CACTIDIR}/cacti.sql) to mysql
-
- shell> mysql [-p] cacti < ${CACTIDIR}/cacti.sql
-
-- Add a symlink from ${CACTIDIR}/scripts/local_memory.pl to the appropriate
- *_memory.pl script (or create one if none for your OS exists)
-
- shell> ln -s ${CACTIDIR}/scripts/netbsd_memory.pl \
- ${CACTIDIR}/scripts/local_memory.pl
-
-- Install & Configure an apache webserver
+- Install & Configure an Apache webserver.
- If you have not already done so, add these lines to enable php extensions
required by cacti in ${PKG_SYSCONFBASE}/etc/php.ini
@@ -32,14 +26,14 @@ To get cacti up and running asap, you have to complete these steps:
extension=snmp.so
extension=sockets.so
-- Append this to apache's httpd.conf and restart apache
+- Append this to Apache webserver's "httpd.conf" and restart the server.
Include etc/httpd/httpd-cacti.conf
- Add the following lines to ${CACTI_USER}'s crontab
-# Invoke poller.php to collect snmp-statistics
-*/5 * * * * ${PREFIX}/bin/php ${CACTIDIR}/poller.php > ${CACTI_LOGDIR}/poller.log 2>&1
+# Invoke poller.php to collect SNMP statistics.
+*/5 * * * * ${PREFIX}/bin/cacti-poller
Please read the included README (${CACTIDIR}/docs/README) file,
for more information about configuring and starting cacti.