Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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. I don't see any issues running collectd as a non root user, however, I am not certain if any of the collectd plugins require collectd to run as root. What user do you suggest collectd to run as?
Regards Amit > >> 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. >
