FYI, I installed xymon-4.3.18 from scratch last week, and ran into a couple of problems. The system I installed on is running RedHat Enterprise Linux v5.11, and I used almost all default answers in the Configure setup (changed location of man pages to /usr/local/share/man from /usr/local/man, if I recall.)
First was that I installed xymon into its own home directory (/home/xymon), and I needed to change directory permissions so the web server (running as login 'apache') could see any of the xymon directory. By default, home directories are set to mode 700 (user only.)
I added group read and execute permissions and added user 'apache' to the 'xymon' group, although I'm not sure if this exposes more than should be exposed. I also added user 'xymon' to the 'apache' group when I created the login.
Secondly, I needed to add "FollowSymLinks" to the cgi options sections in the apache config file for xymon before any of the scripts would work. Once that was in place, and Apache restarted, we seemed to have a working xymon install.
I'm assuming when doing a "./configure --server" I'm also configuring the client (as it's now running on the server.) Can I just grab a tarball of the /home/xymon/client directory and use it for client installations on the same architecture systems, or do I need to run a separate configure and build for "--client"?
-Andrew