----- Original Message ---- > From: Jesse Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Ganglia Developers <ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 9:17:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] Install locations of gmetric and gstat > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Bernard Li wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jesse Becker wrote: > > Gmetric injects metrics to the collection framework which gmond/gmetad > > belongs to, so to quote Martin, "by logic", they should belong in the > > same location. > > Well, both ssh and sshd are part of a secure communications framework. > Would you put ssh in /usr/sbin? :-) >
Now, "ssh" is the *user* tool that is needed to use the ssh service. It needs to be in the standard user PATH. "gmetric" on the other hand is a tool that does not belong/need-to-be in the hand of common users. Usually only administrators define what metrics should go into the ganglia stream. Therefore its place should be both near to gmond and out of the standard user PATH. And of course "gstat" is a user tool again. Just read access to the data stream, not possible to do any harm. > I'll quote the FHS: > > /usr/sbin : Non-essential standard system binaries > /usr/bin : Most user commands > > Based on that, I'll buy the "gmetric in /usr/sbin" argument. > Actually to me ".../sbin" always stand for "stuff that the dirty masses should not see by default" :-) But then I have never been known for my political correctness :-)) Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
