Hi, On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:54:05AM +0000, Daniel Hilst wrote: > I've forgotten debug turned on, and this fills up my filesystem, I'm > stupid I know. To keep me safe from my stupidity I want to install > collectd over a `collectd' user over a quoted filesystem. So in the > worse case I got collectd stopped instead of my entire system. > > The quota stuff I can handle, my question is how to install collectd > with a custom user. I try ./configure --with-user=collectd but no... > was just a try.. Is there a configure or make option to complete > that?
We're running collectd using a non-privileged user, and most of the system plugins work just fine. We use a redhat-style init script that sets up what needs to be as 'root', then starts the collectd daemon using another user. You're referring to compilation, whereas this is a runtime issue. Cheers _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
