Hi Martin. Thanks for taking a look! Hopefully the changes will make it into a future release. All of the servers I'm monitoring at the moment run Solaris 9 and the metric values appear to agree with what I see in 'top'.
---- Yemi > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:48 AM > To: Adesanya, Adeyemi; 'ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: RE: [Ganglia-developers] Running as non-root on > Solaris solved (I think) > > > Yemi, > > sorry for taking so long. I tried it out under Solaris 8 > with gcc-3.3.1 and it seems to work as advertised. It > definitely can now be run as non-root and in background. > Great work. Should be considered for 2.5.6. > > No I can actually start working on adding some more metrics :-) > > Cheers > Martin > > --- "Adesanya, Adeyemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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! > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. > Perforce is the > > Fast Software Configuration Management System offering > > advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. > > Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-developers mailing list > > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers > > > > > > > > > ===== > ------------------------------------------------------ > Martin Knoblauch > email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de > www: http://www.knobisoft.de >
