On Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:35:06 SebA wrote:

Hi,

It would be nice if there was a way to install particularly the init script automatically. For example, on Redhat, one has to (copied and pasted from another page - I did something similar for the version I got from subversion, where I was just compiling and installing the client):

cp -p /usr/local/src/xymon-4.2.3/rpm/hobbit-init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon

chown root:root /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon

chkconfig xymon on

One has to also edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon change the DAEMON to point to one's actual path (which the configure script already has).

The above steps need to be done for xymon-client too.

Then you need to copy /path/to/source/xymon-client.default to /etc/default/xymon-client. You need to edit it and add the Xymon server IP address, which again, you already entered in the configure script...

There are several steps here which could be automated, and it would make installing the client on machines quicker and less error prone, and many of us have to do this on many machines.

None of these steps are necessary if you use the packages that are already available (e.g. in Mandriva, or for RHEL/CentOS/OEL at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/

I suggest the above could be accomplished with a "make config" or "make init" target from the source directory, logged in as root.

If you are using e.g. Debian instead of Redhat, this would be automatically detected and the debian init scripts would be installed instead.

Unfortunately, I'm no shell script wizz and can't really do this myself.

Wouldn't you want a package instead?

I will try and makde 'rpm -ta xymon-4.3.0.tar.gz' work for final 4.3.0 release.

Regards, Buchan