Talk:System Monitoring with Xymon/Administration Guide/Compiling on CentOS

Toward the end of this tutuorial, this line:

"Next we'll want to steal the Hobbit startup script and use it to start Hobbit upon entering run level 3."

scp root@essex.imaginenetworksllc.com:/etc/init.d/hobbit /etc/init.d/hobbit

It asks for the password for root. Without the password, one cannot "steal" that script.

a couple of recommended tweaks
There are two tweaks I had to find my way to as I was following this book:

- on CentOS 6.2 and compiling Xymon 4.3.7, I noted that starting /home/xymon/server/bin/xymonlaunch.sh --debug showed output looking for tasks.cfg in the top-level /etc/ for some reason. I had chosen nothing unusual as I ran ./configure.server before compiling, and the makefile showed no indication of a bad variable being set. I could not find a way around this, so I used the workaround of creating symlink /etc/tasks.cfg pointed at /home/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg. This allowed the server to start normally.

- also, for the Apache less-initiated, it was not clear that /home/xymon/ would need to be 755 in order for /home/xymon/server/www/ to be accessible. That kept me puzzled for several hours.