Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:54 PM, PJ Welsh pjwe...@gmail.com wrote: The list is not deciding these matters. There is no vote. There is only situational reluctance to allow content by certain people. I think maybe that (potential) page hits could be a better metric than the seemingly random way

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-19 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:13 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Would this do as a rule? If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if it was asked on irc or the mailing list,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Christopher Chan
Unless I misinterpreted, you're basically saying that to a writer they need to go work at the project they are documenting, not CentOS no, I agree that you have me right that I think content needs to first go at the proper trailhead in all cases Would this do as a rule? If it is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, It is perfectly reasonable that I argue to strive to make fewer forks and less content in the CentOS wiki under that rubric, as success means the future's primary source doco is better for _all_ FOSS approaches I think it's not that easy to handle. Let's take a look at another

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. Would this do as a rule? If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if it was asked on irc or the mailing list, then it can go on the wiki (sendmail, apache, postfix, samba, whatever comes with the Centos distro). If it won't be 'supported' then minimal

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Christopher Chan
Marcus Moeller wrote: Hi again. Would this do as a rule? If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if it was asked on irc or the mailing list, then it can go on the wiki (sendmail, apache, postfix, samba, whatever comes with the Centos distro). If it won't be

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Would this do as a rule? If it is something 'supported' as in one will answer questions on it if it was asked on irc or the mailing list, then it can go on the wiki (sendmail, apache, postfix, samba,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Christopher Chan But before we go on, may I ask what is the purpose of the Centos Wiki? That is a good question. IM not so HO it should contain documentation which gets people going with things on CentOS. Which is a very broad view.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread PJ Welsh
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: ... Broad views are good IMHO as I think it's easier to address on a case by case basis largely as this list does at present by asking to see and discussing proposed documentation. ... The list is not deciding these

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-18 Thread Nick Sklav
Hi List my question to everyone is. What is exactly wrong with having helpful documentation on the centos wiki? Does it really matter if the original maintainer documents his app. I for one love the fact i can search threw the wiki and get app#1 working and I also know the procedure has gone

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Scott Robbins: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:27:42PM -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Btw. i really consider the current nagios article on the wiki bad. Its totally outdated and covers way to much info how to configure nagios

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Scott Robbins: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:50:41PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't just add the one line from your first mail (which will break, when the box is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I know that the nagios docs suck, and actually everything around nagios. But what does that have to do with centos? And why don't you contribute to the nagios docs? The nagios-wiki (http://wkiki.nagios.org) is totally orphaned also! I personally agree on that. We have similar issues

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Christoph Maser wrote: So we should make a proper nagios documentation on the centos-wiki because the official nagios docs suck? No, but I don't see that it's a problem that it's on the CentOS wiki. There are lots of guides on the wiki that aren't exactly CentOS specific, so does that mean

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Ramón T . B .
The true URL:  http://wiki.nagios.org Regards: FRamonTB --- El jue, 17/9/09, Christoph Maser c...@financial.com escribió: De: Christoph Maser c...@financial.com Asunto: Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2 Para: Mail list for wiki articles centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/16/2009 07:13 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: In my experience with working with Nagios, the problem that always came up was that people didn't know where to even start because there were too many options, and they were overwhelmed. I totally agree. Having enough content in one place so that

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2009 07:07 AM, Christoph Maser wrote: So we should make a proper nagios documentation on the centos-wiki because the official nagios docs suck? Read my last email in reply to Max. Things are not really that black and white. Nagios docs suck. Their developers have made it a point to go

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2009 07:31 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: I personally agree on that. We have similar issues with the Spacewalk documentation (another thread :?). It would be great to have something like an installation guide covering the CentOS specific aspects and links to the upstream docs. Thats

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan. For Spacewalk e.g., I have started to improve the 'official' upstream docs a bit (which are already quite good), instead of re-generating content. Btw, there is also an effort underway to have a centos specific spacewalk repo hosted on centos.org to make life even easier. At

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote: So I am a bit disappointed (but can understand) ppl. like Max who already contributed high quality docs in the past are re-signing from contributing to the wiki (just because one or two other guys have a different pov). I have also suggested that docs like the CentOS

[CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: different pov). I have also suggested that docs like the CentOS specific owlriver rpm howtos (http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/) could as well resist on the CentOS wiki. But it's not my decision. I assume 'reside' for 'resist' ... Scope is one

[CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Max Hetrick wrote: You have one team member stating they believe writers should go upstream for all documentation purposes, if you are referring to me, your projection into what I wrote has mislead you. -- Russ herrold ___

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Max Hetrick
R P Herrold wrote: if you are referring to me, your projection into what I wrote has mislead you. Well, I was kind of referring to what you said here: If people want to write content, they NEED TO GO TO FEDORA, or the upstream, and get patches accepted, so the changes flow back down in

[CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Max Hetrick wrote: R P Herrold wrote: if you are referring to me, your projection into what I wrote has mislead you. Well, I was kind of referring to what you said here: If people want to write content, they NEED TO GO TO FEDORA, or the upstream, and get patches

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin Boel, Silverbullet b...@silverbullet.dk wrote: Hi username: MartinBoel Please grant me access. Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't just add the one line from your first mail (which will break, when the box is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 15:19 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin Boel, Silverbullet b...@silverbullet.dk wrote: Hi username: MartinBoel Please grant me access. Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Christoph Maser wrote: Btw. i really consider the current nagios article on the wiki bad. Its totally outdated and covers way to much info how to configure nagios itself. In my opinion this should be simply replaced by links to the official documentation since it is out of place and

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Christoph Maser c...@financial.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 15:19 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin Boel, Silverbullet b...@silverbullet.dk wrote: Hi username: MartinBoel Please grant me access.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: It might be simpler to just have a tutorial that uses the package that is available from rpmforge. I have already written such a tutorial and it receives several hundred hits each month. Its also the second result in Google if you search for install nagios

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Mathew S. McCarrell: It might be simpler to just have a tutorial that uses the package that is available from rpmforge. I have already written such a tutorial and it receives several hundred hits each month. Its also the second result in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Christoph Maser c...@financial.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Mathew S. McCarrell: It might be simpler to just have a tutorial that uses the package that is available from rpmforge. I have already written such a tutorial

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/16/2009 06:44 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: I've not read your guide, but perhaps both could be united to make one that's current and suitable for everyone's needs. Just a thought too. :) How about splitting it up into 'Install Guide' and a 'Recommended first steps'. Having used Nagios ( or

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:05 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 09/16/2009 06:44 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: I've not read your guide, but perhaps both could be united to make one that's current and suitable for everyone's needs. Just a thought too. :) How about splitting it up into 'Install

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Max Hetrick
Karanbir Singh wrote: How about splitting it up into 'Install Guide' and a 'Recommended first steps'. Having used Nagios ( or does Nagios use us ? ) I know there are a million different ways to set things up. And only a few people really need to get down and understand eveyrthing about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:50:41PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't just add the one line from your first mail (which will break, when the box is relabeled). Ralph Btw. i really consider the current nagios

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:27:42PM -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Btw. i really consider the current nagios article on the wiki bad. Its totally outdated and covers way to much info how to configure nagios itself. In my opinion this should be simply replaced by links to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Mathew S. McCarrell: This one? http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/Install_Nagios_on_CentOS_5 This is what i really think it should like! You're serious? That's

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Chan
Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Mathew S. McCarrell: This one? http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/Install_Nagios_on_CentOS_5 This is what i really think it should

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 09:21 +0200 schrieb Martin Boel, Silverbullet: Hi Thanks for you reply. I guess this should be fixed i the next nagios package or next centos version, but for now the public should be told about a workaround, that works with the current versions. There is quite

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-15 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:21 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi Thanks for you reply. I guess this should be fixed i the next nagios package or next centos version, but for now the public should be told about a workaround, that works with the current versions. There is quite a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 09:21 +0200 schrieb Martin Boel, Silverbullet: Hi Thanks for you reply. I guess this should be fixed i the next nagios package or next centos version, but for now the public should be told about a workaround, that works with the current versions. There is quite

[CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Martin Boel, Silverbullet
Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel subject: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2 location: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios content: A security feature of centos 5.2 SELinux prevents the access from the apache httpd server to the needed /var/nagios files.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel Hmmm. We really do prefer FirstnameLastname. subject: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2 location: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios content: A

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel Hmmm. We really do prefer FirstnameLastname. subject: nagios incompatibility with

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Max Hetrick
Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel subject: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2 location: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios content: A security feature of centos 5.2 SELinux prevents the access from the apache httpd

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:24 +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: workaround is to execute the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:24 +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: workaround is to execute the command: chcon -R httpd_sys_content_t /var/nagios Is that still