Re: [Ganglia-general] Help: nobody user problem

2008-09-08 Thread Jesse Becker
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:05, Lee Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I modify the gmond.conf file I find that user = nobody in globals parameter. So my question is if I use root to start gmond shall I change to user = root? What's the meaning of that? This setting indicates what user

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help: nobody user problem

2008-09-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Amy: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Jesse Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This setting indicates what user gmond should try to run as. This option will only work if gmond is started by the root user, since only the root user can (directly) change its own UID (and EUID). The default for

[Ganglia-general] gmond 3.1 not reporting host data

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Robertson
I too am having trouble getting the gmond collector report data of itself. I've tried mulitple variations on the gmond.conf, but can't seem to find a combination that works. This is on power5 AIX 6.1 running ganglia-gmond-3.0.7-1. /* Feel free to specify as many udp_send_channels as you like.

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond 3.1 not reporting host data

2008-09-08 Thread Ofer Inbar
Ryan Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am having trouble getting the gmond collector report data of itself. I've tried mulitple variations on the gmond.conf, but can't seem to find a combination that works. This is on power5 AIX 6.1 running ganglia-gmond-3.0.7-1. What exactly is the

Re: [Ganglia-general] gmond 3.1 not reporting host data

2008-09-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Ryan: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Ofer Inbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is the symptom you're observing? Have you tried connecting to tcp port 8649 of your gmond node and seeing what it reports? (nc hostname 8649) BTW, 239.2.11.71 is multicast address, you cannot mix it

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help: nobody user problem

2008-09-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Amy: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Lee Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all. My cluster uses Cent OS 4. And your description is really clear, thank you very much! In the future you probably want to hit 'reply-all' when replying so it goes to the mailing-list as well. The email you

Re: [Ganglia-general] Help: nobody user problem

2008-09-08 Thread Lee Amy
2008/9/9 Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Amy: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Lee Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all. My cluster uses Cent OS 4. And your description is really clear, thank you very much! In the future you probably want to hit 'reply-all' when replying so it