[Xymon] Error when starting recently installed client

[Mike Burger]

On 2014-05-14 3:01 pm, Chris Short wrote:
> Of course. That's not having any effect though. Very unusual.
> 
> I do see that the client is trying to communicate with the xymon
> server though:
> 
> # netstat -tupan | grep 1984
> tcp        0      0 10.1.5.178:56627 [4]            10.1.5.219:1984
> [5]             TIME_WAIT   -
> 
>  Are there any communication tests I can run from the server or client
> to test functions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Short
> http://chrisshort.net [1]
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> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Mike Burger
> <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-05-13 4:25 pm, Chris Short wrote:
>> 
>> Interestingly enough that's not working either. I removed the old
>> package, installed the terabithia rpm, and started the
>> xymon-client.
>> It did not complain about XYMONSERVERS not being set so something
>> isn't right here. Let me try a different box.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Chris Short
>> http://chrisshort.net [1] [1]
>> Public PGP Key: http://cshort.co/pub_key [2] [2]
>> 
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Mike Burger
>> <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 [1] [1] [2]
>> Public PGP Key: http://cshort.co/pub_key [2] [2] [3]
>> 
>> 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 [3] [3],
>> which
>> 
>> have installed, properly. My suggestion would be to grab them and
>> try
>> again.
> 
>  You'll want to edit /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client and fill in the
> XYMON-SERVERS variable.

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