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 gmond is to use the "nobody" user, which is commonly used > to run daemons that do not need special access to many files. Because > of the information gmond collects, the "nobody" user may not have > sufficient permission to access all of the files that it needs, so you > may need to use "user=root" in that case. > > Generally, if you don't need to run programs as root, you shouldn't. > So try using "user = nobody", and if it works on your system, great. > Otherwise, start the program as root, and either include "user=root" > or omit it completely. BTW, what OS/distribution are you running Ganglia on? Typically these are not details you need to worry about. For Linux, we provide init scripts that will let you start and stop the services by running simple commands. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
