Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-13 Thread Alexander Bech
Clientupdate is never enabled by default! As long as no clientversion: are defined in the file client-local.cfg on xymon server, clientupdate makes nothing. If that's a server-side setting, it doesn't change the security concerns on the client side at all. Christoph Possible additional

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Alexander Bech 2014-06-11 53985ce8.5050...@bakarasse.de Clientupdate is never enabled by default! As long as no clientversion: are defined in the file client-local.cfg on xymon server, clientupdate makes nothing. If that's a server-side setting, it doesn't change the security concerns on

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-11 Thread Alexander Bech
Am 07.06.2014 20:05, schrieb Christoph Berg: In FHS-compliant installations, updating files spread all over the filesystem is a pretty scary idea. Axel was satisfied with /var/lib/xymon... /var/lib/xymon is also $HOME for xymon user. Would both be happy with /var/run/xymon? If you really

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-07 Thread Alexander Bech
Am 06.06.2014 13:42, schrieb Axel Beckert: Hi Alex, Alexander Bech wrote: It is a feature that does not work. Yes. A feature which is rather incompatible with the concept of packaging. And incompatible with multiple architectures, too. The problem could possibly be solved by adding this

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-07 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Alexander Bech 2014-06-07 5392f5d6.6090...@bakarasse.de +# See if there are also any from central server installed local add-ons +if test -d $XYMONHOME/local; then + for MODULE in $CLIENTUPDATEHOME/local/* + do + if test -x $MODULE + then +

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-06 Thread Alexander Bech
Am 05.06.2014 15:37, schrieb Axel Beckert: Hi Alex, Alexander Bech wrote: the client update process from a central plugins-repository fails. Just to be sure: That's not a regression, right? Did it work in the past? Or have you tried that feature just the first time? In the following I

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Alex, Alexander Bech wrote: the client update process from a central plugins-repository fails. Just to be sure: That's not a regression, right? Did it work in the past? Or have you tried that feature just the first time? In the following I assume that it's not a regression. It is not a

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-05 Thread Alexander Bech
Package: xymon-client Version: 4.3.17-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the client update process from a central plugins-repository fails. In the client-local.cfg on the central xymon-server, the following is configured: [linux] clientversion:xc.v3 This tar-file contains tree plugins.

Bug#750651: xymon-client: clientupdate fails

2014-06-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 + wontfix Hi Alex, Alexander Bech wrote: the client update process from a central plugins-repository fails. Just to be sure: That's not a regression, right? Did it work in the past? Or have you tried that feature just the first time? In the following I assume that it's not a