deepti vaidya wrote: > nagios group is used for the general nagios process to run. > nagcmd is for allowing external commands to be submitted through the web > interface > > I am not explicitly mentioning any reserved uid or gid for the user and > group while creating. So I have not mentioned it in the arc-one pager. > If it has to be there, may I know the reason behind that.
All system uid and gid that are used in packages included in the distribution are allocated out of the reserved space (0-99), there is lots of prior precedence for this. Does Nagios really need another uid and gid ? Can't it run as daemon ? >>> SUNWnagiosr and SUNWnagiosu packages are Uncommitted. >> >> Given that SXCE will no longer exist very soon and OpenSolaris IPS >> collapses these down we should probably stop pretending we need >> separate root and usr packages. >> > If some of the files go to /usr and some go under / (not under /usr), > eg. /etc..., then we need 2 packages. > One root package for the files that go under / (not directly under /usr) > and other user package for the files that go under /usr. > During the package creation, there is file in which we mention whether > it is root package or usr package. If it is user package, in that case > we cannot copy files to directories directly under / other than /usr. Not after SXCE is stopped being built you don't because IPS does not make that distinction. The new filesystem layout looks much better. -- Darren J Moffat
