Hi there. Just following up on my earlier post. Has anyone had a chance to try out my amended solaris.c??
---- Yemi > -----Original Message----- > From: Adesanya, Adeyemi > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:24 AM > To: ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Ganglia-developers] Running as non-root on Solaris > solved (I think) > > > > To the Ganglia development team: > > Here's my modified solaris.c file. Give it a go and see if it > works OK for you. I'm running Solaris 5.9 . > > ---- > Yemi > > On 1/5/04 6:49 PM, "steven wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, I must have been on vacation or something. > > > > Regardless, I don't have this code. > > > > And for the record, I never said I was happy about having > to run gmond > > as root instead of nobody. :) > > > > Adeyemi Adesanya wrote: > >> Hi Christopher. > >> > >> I have not received a response from Steven Wagner so I > will sent this > >> message to the ganglia-developers list (where it belongs). > I am keen > >> to get these changes added to the ganglia because running gmond in > >> root mode is a risk that many net security teams are unwilling to > >> take. > >> > >> Can someone responsible for the gmond code please respond? > I'd love > >> to send you my modified solaris.c file for testing/evaluation. > >> > >> ---- > >> Yemi > >> > >> On 12/15/03 1:29 PM, "Christopher Fitch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> in response to this message: > >>> > >>> Hi Steven. > >>> > >>> I spent some time digging through man pages and I have now > >>> eliminated the need for kvm in solaris.c (no more root > permissions!! > >>> Our security experts can breathe a sigh of > >>> relief!!) > >>> I figured out how to get the statistics from kstat and modified > >>> solaris.c accordingly . I¹ll send you my solaris.c once > I¹ve cleaned > >>> it up and ran a few more tests. > >>> > >>> I tried it on Solaris 5.9 but I will try it on 5.8 too. > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> Yemi > >>> > >>> Is this fix available now? I am running into this problem > as I write > >>> this, and I > >>> would appreciate being able to get the fix. > >>> > >>> :) > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > >
