Hi JC,

This may be off-topic for everyone else as I'm talking about an unofficial RPM (I know), but just to get this into the mailing list archive...

I want to install xymon server on a system, but it will be forwarding its results to another xymon server and therefore I have no need for web pages, RRD files, etc. In fact, I think I only need xymond, xymonnet and an add-on monitor. (Plus xymon-client.) When I try and install your RPM, it wants to install all sorts of things I don't want like apache and libX11 (see below).

Installing: xymon
Installing for dependencies: apr
apr-util
apr-util-ldap
audit-libs-python
cairo
dejavu-fonts-common
dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
fontconfig
fontpackages-filesystem
fping
freetype
httpd
httpd-tools
libX11
libX11-common
libXau
libXft
libXrender
libcgroup
libselinux-python
libsemanage-python
libthai
libxcb
mailcap
net-snmp-libs
pango
pixman
policycoreutils-python
rrdtool
setools-libs
setools-libs-python

Transaction Summary

Install 33 Package(s)

How should I do a minimal install? (I have your repo mirrored, but you can't exclude dependencies with yum AFAIK.) I just did a:

sudo rpm -i fping-3.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

<no errors>

sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

<output below> warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 30: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 31: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 32: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 33: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 34: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 35: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 36: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory

Realizing that I probably needed /usr/sbin/semanage at least, I did:

sudo rpm -e xymon

warning: /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg saved as /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.rpmsave

sudo rm -fR /etc/xymon

sudo yum install setools-libs-python

sudo yum install policycoreutils-python

And what the heck, it's just one package that I may use and xymon wants it directly, rather than a dependency of a dependency, so:

sudo yum install net-snmp-libs

sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root

Should I have any problems that you foresee?

Thanks and kind regards,

SebA