[Xymon] 4.3.18 install issues. /home/xymon permissions, missing FollowSymLinks

[Andrew Rakowski]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, J.C. Cleaver wrote (in part):

>> Secondly, I needed to add "FollowSymLinks" to the cgi options sections in
>> the apache config file for xymon before any of the scripts would work.
>> Once that was in place, and Apache restarted, we seemed to have a working
>> xymon install.
>
> Odd. FollowSymLinks should already be present in the config files for
> 4.3.18. Which stanza did you need to add it to?

My apologies on this false alarm / operator error / PEBKAC incident.

It was MY mistake - I appear to have copied the example 
xymon-apacheconf.txt file to /etc/httpd/conf.d/xymon-apache.conf file.  I 
noticed it needed editing to use the right path, but thought that was an 
oversight in the config/make during build/install, and fixed it manually.

If I had actually *read* the install instructions, it says to link the 
/home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf file into the apache conf.d 
directory, which would have worked fine, and DOES have the proper 
FollowSymLinks options in place, as well as correct paths for the install.

> When making a tarball to copy onto other systems, it's better to do a
> ./configure --client since you'll end up pulling in slightly lighter
> binaries, however the ones produced by the server config should still
> work.

Thanks, I'll do new client builds on other systems for the appropriate OS 
releases and architectures.

I'm actually tempted to just use your Terabithia.org RPMs for the clients. 
It's nice to have a package install, as we're all used to doing an "rpm 
-qa | grep XXX" in the RedHat world to see if package XXX is installed.

-Andrew

ps: I blame Thursdays for the problem - I never could get the hang of
     Thursdays.