Trigger installation issues

[francisjes]

i installed trigger tool in my Ubuntu PC. but after that i am not able to see the default files like settings.py netdevices.csv etc under trigger folder even i tried to copy from conf folder. but getting below message
root@PC:/usr# cd /etc/trigger/
root@PC:/etc/trigger# ls
root@PC:/etc/trigger#
root@PC:/etc/trigger# sudo cp conf/trigger_settings.py /etc/trigger/settings.py
cp: cannot stat âconf/trigger_settings.pyâ: No such file or directory
root@HPC:/etc/trigger#

please provide the complete process of installation of Trigger tools

[tcuthbert]

Looks like something went wrong with your copy there cp: cannot stat âconf/trigger_settings.pyâ: No such file or directory

[tcuthbert]

What's the output of?:

cat /etc/trigger/settings.py
stat /etc/trigger/settings.py

[francisjes]

Hi, Please find the required output root@PC:~# cd /etc/trigger/ root@PC:/etc/trigger# root@PC:/etc/trigger# ls root@PC:/etc/trigger# root@PC:~# cat /etc/trigger/settings.py cat: /etc/trigger/settings.py: No such file or directory root@PC:~# root@PC:~# root@PC:~# stat /etc/trigger/settings.py stat: cannot stat â/etc/trigger/settings.pyâ: No such file or directory root@PC:~#

[tcuthbert]

What happens when you run

cd /etc/trigger
sudo touch afile
ls

[francisjes]

Yes am able to create new files. Basically I need default settings files in trigger folder root@HMC-NET-PC:/etc/trigger# cd /etc/trigger root@HMC-NET-PC:/etc/trigger# sudotouch afile root@HMC-NET-PC:/etc/trigger# ls afile root@HMC-NET-PC:/etc/trigger#

[tcuthbert]

OK. As there is an issue with cp we could try two things:

1. from /etc/trigger do the following touch settings.py then cut and paste the contents of trigger_settings.py into settings.py and save.

2. set your TRIGGER_SETTINGS environment variable to an alternate location. You could test this like so:

export TRIGGER_SETTINGS=conf/trigger_settings.py

I just noticed something. Did you clone/copy the trigger repo into /etc/trigger/ ? If so dont' do that, clone it to something like ~/.local/src/trigger, /srv/trigger, /opt/trigger or /usr/local/src/trigger and set yourself as the owner with chown.