[Xymon] no reports because of full root disk - workaround

[Christoph Zechner]

Hi,

a while ago, we encountered a rather annoying problem: if the root disk 
of our Linux servers got full between two xymon checks, we were not 
notified, because xymon was not able to report this, due to to remaining 
space. It did not matter whether the machine was in xymon local mode or 
not (we wanted to be sure).

We then found a workaround for this problem:

* creating a ramdisk (10 MB should suffice)
* mount it as /var/lib/xymon/temp (unlike "tmp" originally)
* change the tmp location in xymonclient.cfg
* restart xymon-client

This allows the system to send reports even if the root disk is 
completely full and there's no need for repartitioning or adding other 
disks.

Any thoughts about that? Are there any repercussions I did not think 
about? I'd love to hear your opinions.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers
Christoph