[Xymon] how to run 2 xymon-servers on 1 host?

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Mar 14 17:43:55 CET 2011


> I would like to run 2 xymon-4.3.0 servers on 1 host (one for testing,
> one for production), each with its own user (xymon vs xymontst) and port
> (1984 vs. 1985). The problem is, that I get an error-message when
> starting the second server:
>
> "Could not get shm of size 262144: Permission denied"

This is one of the more obscure parts of the SysV IPC specs, but it 
basically boils down to this: Make sure the two Xymon servers have 
different XYMONHOME directories, and it should work OK.

(For details, look up the documentation on your systems' "ftok" function).


Regards,
Henrik



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