On Friday, 18 November 2011 18:20:37 bb4 at richter-it.net wrote:

Hi fellow xymonians,

I was asked by colleagues if it would be a good idea to add some check to the client start script (runclient.sh) to avoid the start of the client as root. What do you think?

You mean like the example scripts provided in the source (e.g. look in rpm/ or debian/)?

Or like the init scripts provided and used by packages of Xymon?

I know that I could update all my client scripts but if I update my installation this change will be gone.

This is why one uses software packages (such as rpm or deb) to deploy software.

Regards, Buchan