installing Nagios on shared Debian box (Dreamhost)?

[Andreas Ericsson]

RR wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Patrick Morris <patrick.morris at hp.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are no major differences between running it on Dreamhost vs.
>> running it anywhere else you don't have root access, though Dreamhost
>> will kill processes that try to use too many system resources (CPU,
>> etc.), and you may find your Nagios instance dying from time to time,
>> possibly very often, if their systems perceive it as a resource hog.
> 
> 
> Dreamhost just wrote me back and told me that they don't allow any
> persistent processes. Having seen SpamAssassin and ClamAV "make install"
> tutorials (from your shell login), I thought that this sort of thing would
> be ok.
> 

SpamAssassin and ClamAV aren't necessarily persistent processes.

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