[Perfparse-users] Error 500!

[James G. <ja...@m5...>]

Hi all,

I've been reading through the archives, and saw that Gili has had the 
same problem as myself. That is, error 500 on perfparse.cgi. The 
following is the error..

--
Server error!

    The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete 
your request.

    Error message:
    malformed header from script. Bad header=perfparse.cgi: perfparse.cgi

    If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster

Error 500

    X.X.X.X
    Tue 04 Jan 2005 10:07:03 EST
    Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
--
The error only occurs when there are arguments passed to perfparse.cgi. 
Eg perfparse.cgi?edit_host_list=1
When I go to perfparse.cgi, I can see the menu page correctly. The 
permissions for perfparse.cgi are exactly the same as those for the 
nagios cgi files.
All of the nagios pages work correctly and have been working for a 
while. I am running nagios v1.1

I'm using perfparse-0.104.4. 
The following is some output from my perfdata-service.log

1104549133      services-cbr    /       DISK OK [241572 kB (51%) free on 
/dev/hda1]     OK
1104549133      services3-cbr   /var    DISK OK [14202808 kB (98%) free 
on /dev/hda2]   OK
1104549133      pix     PING    PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1.48 
ms       OK
1104549133      ids-cbr /       DISK OK - free space: / 1317 MB (91%):  
OK       /=1317MB;1235;1381;0;1454

Should I be seeing stuff after a '|' ? Does this mean that there is no 
useful perfdata?

Also, and I think this may be intertwined with my cgi problem, I am 
getting no data at all in my database.
The following is an error from perfparse.log.20050104.log

2005/01/04 10:54:54 [   storage.c:92    19064 ] storage_mysql module 
successfully loaded
2005/01/04 10:54:54 [log_reader.c:159   19064 ] No position mark path 
was specified. Either disable saving the position or specify a mark path.

I have ran  mysql_create.sql and created all the tables in the database, 
it seems it is connecting correctly, too, as I had to fix the config 
file to ensure this.

As usual, any and all help would be extremely appreciated. I've read as 
much documentation as I can find, and I'm still at a loss. Thanks in 
advance! :)

Kind Regards,
James Greenhalgh