Do find the updated ARC case attached. I have added a new section "Lifecycle" which specifies that collectd will run as daemon:daemon.
Regards Amit On 11/13/09 00:22, Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: collectd-arc.txt URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/attachments/20091113/4d84645d/attachment.txt>
