[Xymon] Error when starting recently installed client

[Mike Burger]

On 2014-05-13 1:48 pm, Chris Short wrote:
> Built the rpm using the makerpm.sh script and installed with yum.
> Directory is not present on the box.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Short
> http://chrisshort.net [2]
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> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Mike Burger
> <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-05-13 11:52 am, Chris Short wrote:
>> 
>>> I have xymon-client running on a handful of RHEL6 servers. But,
>>> other
>>> RHEL6 servers where I am rolling out the client throw up this
>>> unusual
>>> error:
>>> 
>>> # service xymon-client restart
>>> Restarting xymon-client: su: warning: cannot change directory to
>>> /usr/share/xymon-client: No such file or directory
>>> This account is currently not available.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas why /usr/share/xymon-client isn't being built?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>> 
>> What method did you use to install the client? If you installed via
>> RPM, the directory should exist with ownership root:root and
>> permissions 755.

Interesting. I've been using the RPMs from terabithia.org, which have 
installed, properly. My suggestion would be to grab them and try again.

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