Amit Gupta wrote: > On 11/11/09 22:34, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> The filelayout looks fine. >> >> What uid/gid and privileges does SMF start collectd with ? (ie what is >> the method credential section in the SMF manifest). > SMF will start collectd as root.
Why does collectd need to run as root ? What stats is it that is collectd needs that requires it to run with root ? It really shouldn't need to. > Regards > Amit >> Hopefully this need to run as root with all privileges - ideally it >> should run as daemon with basic privileges (or less). I missed a "not" in that sentence. -- Darren J Moffat
