Re: [linuxtools-dev] The location of Linux Tools Project executables

2011-06-21 Thread Corey Ashford
On 06/21/2011 10:09 AM, Siva Velusamy wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Corey Ashford > mailto:cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote: > > On 06/21/2011 05:54 AM, Daniel HB wrote: > > Hey Corey! > > I think it's a good idea but I don't think, unfortunately, that is

Re: [linuxtools-dev] The location of Linux Tools Project executables

2011-06-21 Thread Siva Velusamy
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Corey Ashford wrote: > On 06/21/2011 05:54 AM, Daniel HB wrote: > >> Hey Corey! >> >> I think it's a good idea but I don't think, unfortunately, that is >> simple to implement in the case of the Oprofile plugin. It uses a script >> to add an entry in the sudoers (S

Re: [linuxtools-dev] The location of Linux Tools Project executables

2011-06-21 Thread Corey Ashford
On 06/21/2011 05:54 AM, Daniel HB wrote: Hey Corey! I think it's a good idea but I don't think, unfortunately, that is simple to implement in the case of the Oprofile plugin. It uses a script to add an entry in the sudoers (Suse) or add a security wrapper for consolehelper (RHEL). After that it

Re: [linuxtools-dev] The location of Linux Tools Project executables

2011-06-21 Thread Daniel HB
Hey Corey! I think it's a good idea but I don't think, unfortunately, that is simple to implement in the case of the Oprofile plugin. It uses a script to add an entry in the sudoers (Suse) or add a security wrapper for consolehelper (RHEL). After that it executes the tool using a symbolic link loc

[linuxtools-dev] The location of Linux Tools Project executables

2011-06-20 Thread Corey Ashford
Hi Folks, We have an interesting challenge with the Linux Tools Project plug-ins, and that is being able to determine where each of the linux tool executables are. I think for most users of the plug-ins, they can assume that all of the tools are on their search path, for example /usr/bin/opcontro