I am documenting this for whomever else may need this. This file is from an rpm xymon-client-4.3.10-1 that I got off the net somewhere. I just figured out why the "stop" does not work.

I set CLIENTHOSTNAME in here

=> more /etc/default/xymon-client

Configure the Xymon client settings.

You MUST set the list of Xymon servers that this

client reports to.

It is good to use IP-adresses here instead of DNS

names - DNS might not work if there's a problem.

E.g. (a single Xymon server)

XYMONSERVERS="192.168.1.1"

or (multiple servers)

XYMONSERVERS="10.0.0.1 192.168.1.1"

XYMONSERVERS="10.65.1.66 10.65.20.151"

The defaults usually suffice for the rest of this file,

but you can tweak the hostname that the client reports

data with.

Thu Mar 21 15:30:16 EDT 2013

CLIENTHOSTNAME="$(hostname | cut -f1 -d'.')"

Red Hat EL version 3 uses a different vmstat layout

than all other Linux versions. So for a client running this

particular OS, set CLIENTOS as below.

Do NOT set this on any other Red Hat version.

CLIENTOS="rhel3"

but the script does not pass that info on the stop - so the start worked fine, but the stop not. Even the restart worked. I fixed below

xymon-client This shell script takes care of starting and stopping

the Xymon client.

chkconfig: 2345 80 20

description: Xymon is a network monitoring tool that allows \

you to monitor hosts and services. This client reports local \

system statistics (cpu-, memory-, disk-utilisation etc) \

to the Xymon server.

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/lib/xymon/client/runclient.sh NAME=xymon-client DESC=xymon-client

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

CMD="$1"

Include xymon-client defaults if available

DMNOPTS="" if [ -f /etc/default/xymon-client ] ; then . /etc/default/xymon-client else echo "Installation failure - missing /etc/default/xymon-client" exit 1 fi

if [ "$XYMONSERVERS" = "" ]; then echo "Please configure XYMONSERVERS in /etc/default/xymon-client" exit 1 fi

set $XYMONSERVERS if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then echo "XYMSRV=\"$XYMONSERVERS\"" >/var/run/xymonclient-runtime.cfg echo "XYMSERVERS=\"\"" >>/var/run/xymonclient-runtime.cfg else echo "XYMSRV=\"0.0.0.0\"" >/var/run/xymonclient-runtime.cfg echo "XYMSERVERS=\"$XYMONSERVERS\"" >>/var/run/xymonclient-runtime.cfg fi

if [ "$CLIENTHOSTNAME" != "" ]; then DMNOPTS="${DMNOPTS} --hostname=${CLIENTHOSTNAME}" fi if [ "$CLIENTOS" != "" ]; then DMNOPTS="${DMNOPTS} --os=${CLIENTOS}" fi

set -e

case "$CMD" in start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: " su -c "$DAEMON $DMNOPTS start" - xymon echo "$NAME." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " su -c "$DAEMON stop" - xymon ### is

su -c "$DAEMON $DMNOPTS stop" - xymon # ## should be this!!!

    echo "$NAME."
    ;;

restart) echo -n "Restarting $DESC: " su -c "$DAEMON stop" - xymon su -c "$DAEMON $DMNOPTS start" - xymon echo "$NAME." ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME # echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2 echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac

exit 0