[Xymon] Startup script for xymon on Ubuntu

Jewel Makda jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
Fri Sep 9 20:44:54 CEST 2011


I followed all of these instructions, made the script and placed it in 
my startup which is located in /etc/init.d/rc6.d
I restarted and it didn't work.  When I test the script it works but it 
prompts me for the password of the user.  How do I get past this.  I did 
so the chmod 755 command.

On 9/9/2011 12:16 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> Let me clarify, you need to modify /etc/init.d/hobbit so the variables 
> at the top match how you installed Xymon.
>
> Josh Luthman
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Josh Luthman 
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just execute those commands (as root) and you'll be done.
>
>
>     Josh Luthman
>     Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>     Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>     1100 Wayne St
>     Suite 1337
>     Troy, OH 45373
>
>
>     On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jewel Makda
>     <jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
>     <mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>> wrote:
>
>         I am still learning about Linux and am not sure how to do
>         this. I searched online and found the following:
>
>         cd /etc/init.d
>         wgethttp://iam8up.com/xymon-initd/hobbit
>         chmod 755 hobbit
>         ln -s /etc/init.d/hobbit /etc/rc3.d/S70hobbit
>
>         I rebuilt the server from scratch this morning and am actually using the 4.3.5 version
>         released today so I am sure the above doesn't apply.  I am running Ubuntu 11.4
>         Sorry to be such a novice.
>
>
>
>         On 9/9/2011 11:35 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>         Put a start up script in /etc/rc3.d or /etc/rc5.d
>>
>>         Josh Luthman
>>         Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>         Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>         1100 Wayne St
>>         Suite 1337
>>         Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>         On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jewel Makda
>>         <jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
>>         <mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>             It's working now. I restarted the xymon.sh service.  Not
>>             sure what happened.
>>
>>
>>             When I click to view a report on my xymon installation I
>>             get "Cannot load host configuration".  I am not sure what
>>             I messed up.  I can see the main page just fine it's just
>>             when I click on a smiley face.  In my apache logs I see
>>             'Could not connect to Xymon deamon at 127.0.0.1:1984
>>             <http://deamon@127.0.0.1:1984> (Connection refused);
>>             'xymonboard fields=hostname,testname,disabletime,dismsg'
>>
>>             All I did was reboot the server.
>>
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