[Xymon] Installing Xymon

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Sat Feb 11 11:54:41 CET 2012


On 10-02-2012 23:27, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L wrote:
> I want to install Xymon on our production server, but our SAs have a new
> policy which they do not allow temporary root access to do all the
> installs. Is there a way to install Xymon without needing root access?

There are very few parts of the Xymon installation that require special 
privileges:

* xymonping must run as root, and therefore a chown/chmod is done during 
installation to make it suid root
* The www/rep and www/snapshot directories are chgrp'ed to the groupid 
used by the webserver, and made group-writable

You can run configure, build and install Xymon without any special 
privileges - just use the "-k" option when running "make install", i.e. 
"make -k install". This will cause the installation to ignore that it 
cannot do these two things.

Of course, to actually use Xymon some admin configuration is needed - 
you need to configure the webserver to handle the Xymon webpages, and 
either xymonping or fping (if you choose to use that) will have to be 
installed as suid-root or made usable for the xymon user via e.g. sudo. 
So you do need some admin cooperation. But for the core installation it 
will not be necessary.


Regards,
Henrik



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