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-====== Install Cacti On Slackware ====== 
  
-1) Enable [[howtos:network_services:httpd|httpd]] \\ 
-     vi /etc/httpd/httpd.conf 
-     CHANGE: 
-     #Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf 
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-     TO: 
-     Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf 
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-     CHANGE: 
-     DirectoryIndex index.html 
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-     TO: 
-     DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.pl 
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-     fix php time zone: 
-     vi /etc/httpd/php.ini 
-     UNCOMMENT: date.timezone = America/Chicago <--and change to the right timezone 
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-2) Install rrd (using sbopkg)\\ 
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-3) Install cacti (using sbopkg)\\ 
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-4) Add a user if needed: \\ 
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-     adduser cacti 
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-5) Get [[howtos:databases:install_mysql_on_slackware|MySQL]] working: 
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-     NOTE: In /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld COMMENT OUT: SKIP="--skip-networking" 
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-6) Setup the cacti database: 
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-     shell> mysqladmin -u root -p create cacti 
-     shell> locate cacti.sql  (should find cacti.sql) 
-     shell> mysql -u root -p cacti < $(locate cacti.sql) 
-          HINT: If you get: "locate: fatal error: Could not find user database", run updatedb then retry. 
-     shell> mysql -u root -p cacti 
-     mysql> update user_auth set password=md5('admin') where username='admin'; <---may not be needed 
-     mysql> flush privileges; 
-     mysql> exit 
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-     shell> use mysql 
-     mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'cactiuser'; 
-     mysql> flush privileges; 
-     mysql> exit 
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-7) VERIFY /var/www/htdocs/cacti/include/config.php: 
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- $database_type = "mysql"; 
- $database_default = "cacti"; 
- $database_hostname = "localhost"; 
- $database_username = "cactiuser"; 
- $database_password = "cactiuser"; 
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-8) Give the user ownership of the data directories: 
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-     shell> chown -R cacti /var/www/htdocs/cacti/rra 
-     shell> chown -R cacti /var/log/cacti 
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-9) Set up the poller cron job: 
-     AS USER cacti: 
-     crontab -e 
-          */5 * * * *  php /srv/www/htdocs/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1 
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-10) Run the web install: Open a web browser and go to: http://YOUR_MACHINE/cacti/install.php 
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