Hi Bernard, Yesterday Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Daniel: > > The init script does not work on my system (CentOS 4.x) as is, because > the `daemon` function which I have does not support --pidfile -- is > that argument necessary? > > Also, as discussed previously, I think it would be a good idea to > create a 'rrdcached' user and group and start the daemon as that user > instead of nobody. For application-specific (eg. Ganglia) > implementations, we can just put the necessary users (such as nobody, > apache, ganglia) in the rrdcached group. I think coupled with a split of the package into a cached and a normal one this would be a sensible thing. As I said before the daemon should NOT run as nobody since it writes files and there must never be any files oned by nobody ... (hence the name). cheers tobi > > Thanks, > > Bernard > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > I have some comments regarding the rrdtool spec file that is in trunk > > now (which includes changes to incorporate rrdcached). > > > > First of all, thanks to Daniel for putting this together (saves me the > > work, heh). > > > > However, I have two comments: > > > > 1) I think we should break this out as a separate subpackage such as > > rrdtool-rrdcached as I don't think rrdcached is needed by your > > everyday installation (only large installations). Incorporating it in > > the main rrdtool package and especially by including an init script > > gives users the impression that this is something that is needed by > > everybody, which I don't think is the case. > > > > 2) By default, the rrdcached daemon is started once you install the > > RPM. While I think it is fine to add rrdcached as a service, I don't > > think it's a good idea to start up the daemon by default especially > > when one might want to make some configuration changes prior starting. > > It should be left to the user to start/top the daemon as they like. > > > > If you guys agree, I can go ahead and create a patch for the above two > > points. I may have additional comments after I've had some time to > > play with the new code. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bernard > > > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers
