Hi Jesse:

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jesse Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The gmond and gmetad programs certainly belong in /usr/sbin.  I think gstat
> should stay in /usr/bin.

Sure.

> For gmetric, I don't have a good argument *for* either directory.  Why
> should it be in /usr/sbin?  However, an argument *against* moving it is that

Gmetric injects metrics to the collection framework which gmond/gmetad
belongs to, so to quote Martin, "by logic", they should belong in the
same location.

> moving gmetric to /usr/sbin will break any script that has /usr/bin/ hard
> coded.  This is probably more common than anyone would like to admit.
>
> Based on that, I'd say leave things where they are.

But isn't that a good incentive for folks to replace all their gmetric
cronjobs with Python/C modules? :-)

Cheers,

Bernard

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