[Xymon] Suggestion: make config or make init targets

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:35:06 SebA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be nice if there was a way to install particularly the init script
> automatically.  For example, on Redhat, one has to (copied and pasted from
> another page - I did something similar for the version I got from
> subversion, where I was just compiling and installing the client):
> 
> # cp -p /usr/local/src/xymon-4.2.3/rpm/hobbit-init.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon
> # chown root:root /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon
> # chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon
> # chkconfig xymon on
> 
> One has to also edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/xymon change the DAEMON to point to
> one's actual path (which the configure script already has).
> 
> The above steps need to be done for xymon-client too.
> 
> Then you need to copy /path/to/source/xymon-client.default to
> /etc/default/xymon-client.  You need to edit it and add the Xymon server IP
> address, which again, you already entered in the configure script...
> 
> There are several steps here which could be automated, and it would make
> installing the client on machines quicker and less error prone, and many of
> us have to do this on many machines.

None of these steps are necessary if you use the packages that are already 
available (e.g. in Mandriva, or for RHEL/CentOS/OEL at 
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/

> I suggest the above could be accomplished with a "make config" or "make
> init" target from the source directory, logged in as root.
> 
> If you are using e.g. Debian instead of Redhat, this would be automatically
> detected and the debian init scripts would be installed instead.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm no shell script wizz and can't really do this myself.

Wouldn't you want a package instead?

I will try and makde 'rpm -ta xymon-4.3.0.tar.gz' work for final 4.3.0 
release.

Regards,
Buchan