On 12/15/2010 03:25 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:46 AM >> >> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: >>> >>> Hooray! >>> >>> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the >>> most recent version of merlin recently. At the heart of my issues >>> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring >>> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree. >>> >>> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for >>> the socket and the binlogs. I'm assuming that's intentional, but it >>> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different >>> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process. >>> >> >> The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in >> the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no >> option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid. > > "Binlogs cannot" meaning it can't be moved without modifying the code > directly, right? Because that's what I did :-). >
That's correct. >>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the >>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right. > >> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the >> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install >> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon >> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want, >> I suppose it should. > > Yes, I believe that would work for me. I'm not setting $root_path at all. > Sweet. I'll add something to that effect then. For us, it won't make a difference, but if it makes life easier for you, then that's just all the better. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null