distributed nagios ?

[Frost, Mark {PBC}]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:46 AM
> 
> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>> 
>> Hooray!
>> 
>> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the
>> most recent version of merlin recently.  At the heart of my issues
>> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring
>> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree.
>> 
>> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for
>> the socket and the binlogs.  I'm assuming that's intentional, but it
>> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different
>> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process.
>> 
>
> The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in
> the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no
> option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid.

"Binlogs cannot" meaning it can't be moved without modifying the code
directly, right?  Because that's what I did :-).

>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right.

> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
> I suppose it should.

Yes, I believe that would work for me.  I'm not setting $root_path at all.

Thanks, Andreas.

Mark


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