[Xymon] Client startup on OS X

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Ok, what I wanted to do seems to work fine.  Attached are the modified runclient.sh and my launchd plist file.  The latter would need the account name, group name, and pathnames modified as necessary (I installed in /Users/xymon/client, which may not be typical).

The modified runclient.sh will also exec xymonlaunch rather than run it and wait for it, if --no-daemon is passed; might as well save one shell process. :-)  It also allows passing --debug and --verbose options through to xymonlaunch.  None of which should affect its conventional use.


> On Feb 9, 2016, at 09:35, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Older tricks for this included StartupItems, which apparently no longer work as of Yosemite, let alone El Capitan.
> 
> MacPorts has a really strange solution, but I'm not impressed at all with it.
> 
> I see that xymonlaunch has a --no-daemon option, which would allow the sort of behavior that launchd expects.  An old post mentions an approach using that:
> http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/05/msg00244.html
> 
> Seems to me that if runclient.sh handled an extra command line option to pass --no-daemon through to the xymonlaunch command line, it would simplify matters somewhat, not requiring people to check that their modified script was updated as needed; all that would be needed extra would be a com.xymon.client.plist file to put in /Library/LaunchDaemons; and that shouldn't vary from one update to the next.
> 
> What I'm suggesting should probably work at least as far back as Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) if not further.  I haven't tried it yet, but I'm on my way to doing so.
> 

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