This concerns compiling rrdtool on one Linux machine for distribution to other very similar machines. I have spent most of my time on Windows, and only picked up Linux about a year ago, so my biggest culture shock has been installing third party items. No .exe wizard inside a .zip any more; you have to download the source and compile it mate!
I wrote and manage a LAMP+R application which monitors an international IP VPN network. The L=Fedora Core 4 Linux, the P=Perl, and of course the +R=rrdtool. (New to the LAMP acronym? A=Apache web server and M=MySQL database). Yesterday, on two test i386 laptops, I loaded the very recent Fedora Core 5 final release (fc5fr). On one machine, with development tools and libraries, I used all the relevant bash lines from: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/doc/rrdbuild.en.html to download and compile rrdtool, which ran OK, and then did a cursory test by successfully running one of the examples. I then used archive manager to make a .tar.gz tarball of the file system from /usr/local/rrdtool-1.12.2 downwards (just 2.5Mbyte). I then extracted that at /usr/local/ on the second machine, which deliberately lacked the development tools and libraries. The example worked OK on that machine. I thus feel confident that when I get fc5fr put on the application's test machine, I can just add the tarball, make sure that my Perl program knows where to find RRDs.pm: use lib qw(/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12/lib/perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi); and then expect the program to run without further effort (once I have done all the Apache and MySQL initialisations of course). Do you think it will happen? Regards and thanks -- Nick Sharp -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
