[Xymon] client start script for XYmon

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Tue Nov 22 10:15:48 CET 2011


On Friday, 18 November 2011 18:20:37 bb4 at richter-it.net wrote:
> Hi fellow xymonians,
>  
> I was asked by colleagues if it would be a good idea to add some check to
> the client start script (runclient.sh) to avoid the start of the client as
> root. What do you think?

You mean like the example scripts provided in the source (e.g. look in rpm/ or 
debian/)?

Or like the init scripts provided and used by packages of Xymon?

> I know that I could update all my client scripts but if I update my
> installation this change will be gone.

This is why one uses software packages (such as rpm or deb) to deploy 
software.

Regards,
Buchan



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