amit.gupta at sun.com wrote: > 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?
user daemon, group daemon and the basic privilege set. -- Darren J Moffat
