[Perfparse-users] FIFO issues

[Eric G. <er...@in...>]

good morning, perfparse people.
 
i'm setting up perfparse 0.105.6 with nagios 3.0.1 on a centOS 5
machine.
 
it is not working.
 
i'm using the "pipe to perfparse" method as described in the install
guide.
 
nothing's getting in to the database, and it seems to be FIFO related.
observe:
 
[root@nagios01a var]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/perfparse-log2mysql -e
error.txt
[root@nagios01a var]# cat error.txt
cat: error.txt: No such file or directory
[root@nagios01a var]# cat error.txt.20080501.log
2008/05/01 12:59:55 [perfparse-log2any.c:157   24175 ] FIFO not
authorized as the perf data input source

 
 
...now, my googling has shown that this is generally caused by either an
error in perfparse.cfg, or incorrect permissions in
/usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log. here's the relevent line in
perfparse.cfg:
 
Service_Log = "|/usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log"
 
...which i'm pretty confident is correct, and here's the permissions:
 
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 198 May  1 13:03
/usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log

 
i've been messing with this for days, recompiled like five times, and
i'm at the end of my rope. help?