Hi Panders, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:44:45AM +0200, Pander wrote: > I would like to install collectd on a server in an extremely minimal way > where it only sends information to another server that collects it. A > local rrd is not needed from my perspective. How to go about this? > > Do I need to install collecd-core only or also collectd? And what other > configurations do I need to do?
You should install collectd-core and then manually provide a collectd.conf (that remindes me that collectd-core should include a couple of sample configurations). > On the matter of a minimal installation, I have noticed that this is not > easy. In Ubuntu, collectd-core would like to install the following > packages (most of the dependancies are actually from rdd): […] rrdtool is not a strict dependency but rather a recommendation. Install collectd with 'apt-get --no-install-recommends' (or 'aptitude --without-recommends'). HTH, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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