Hello Xymon folks,

I've been racking my brain about this lately and I don't see an easy way. I'd like to install the xymon client to /opt (or even the xymon server, but that's another problem) and I'm using the Terabithia RPMS. I do have the option to install them in the regular FHS but then I have to depend our DCS vendor for any operations regarding the software, and with their track record, I'd rather not. Additionally our current environment has the client installed in /opt in all of the existing servers (older client which will need to be upgraded as part of this project) and I'd like to stick with that convention, which was advised by my sysadmin, manager, and a colleague. It makes administration easier on us to stick with this convention.

When I try to install them to a different root using YUM, it tries to install all of the dependencies as well. Apparently there's no way to get YUM to ignore dependencies and if I try to install the RPM by relocating, I get a message that the RPM is not relocatable. So, I'm guessing I need to install from source or build my own package (yuck).

So, I've installed from source on a test system, but then there's no scripts to create user accounts or add service definitions for starting/stopping the service. I've found the runclient.sh script but I don't know how to adapt that to systemd on centos 7.

Can the Terabithia RPMs be made relocatable or does anyone advice on how to proceed?

Thanks in advance,

-Jason