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Xymon 4.3.31 is close: we need your help to finish it

list Jeremy Laidman
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:35:48 +1100
Message-Id: <CACO=ejyTCJ+cX6TD0TrB0jd2uimAkL=user-0e887ccfe21e@xymon.invalid>

Hi Bruno
I'm testing "4.3.31-root" on RHELv9.8. When I run ./configure I get an error due to ypmatch not being installed:

What userid will be running Xymon [xymon] ?

~/xymon-4.3.31-root/configure.server: line 223: ypmatch: command not found
FAILURE: The user xymon does not exist. Create user and try again.

I would guess the ypmatch command STDERR could simply be discarded with "2>/dev/null", as it is already done with getent.

This is probably only cosmetic, and I don't think this is actually going to cause a problem, except that the compilation fails because the xymon user doesn't exist, but that's something I probably should have already done. If I use the configure command line from the spec file, which sets a bunch of variables, I don't see the error message.

I also noticed that the same line in configure.server appears to have an inconsistency in the use of XYMONUSER:

                USERDATA=`getent passwd $XYMONUSER 2>/dev/null || ypmatch "${XYMONUSER}" passwd || grep "^${XYMONUSER}:" /etc/passwd`

I believe best practice would be to quote "$XYMONUSER" in all three instances, so I'm not sure why it wasn't quoted in the first command.

Ongoing...

I used the spec file to build a package and installed it onto another RHEL9 host. After installation, the only issue I have noticed is that SELinux was preventing CGI scripts from working correctly. I believe the Terabithia RPM package installs a "xymon.pp" file for SELinux to appropriately label the CGI scripts with "httpd_sys_script_exec_t", and also to allow CGI scripts to initiate network connections (required for connecting to localhost:1984).

Apart from that, it all appears to be running correctly, and I'll continue to play with it for a while.

Cheers
Jeremy

On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 at 00:03, Bruno Manzoni via Xymon <xymon@xymon.com> wrote:

Hi Mario,

Thanks! Reproduced: if the tree loses its execute bits, configure restores them on its own scripts but not on build/convert-bbservices. That script only converts a 2005 format, so we're removing it. The PR needs a review before it can merge, and it's a two-line diff, so if you have five minutes, I'd love it to be yours: https://github.com/xymon-monitoring/xymon/pull/626

And please report back on SNMP, it's still experimental.

Cheers,
Bruno

Le 11.10.2026 à 11:09, hopbyhop.net via Xymon a écrit :
Hi Bruno, hi all.
I cloned main tree yesterday and compiled from source as I always used to do with xymon.
The box is a Slackware64-current, fping 5.5 and rrd 1.11.0 also compiled from source just before xymon. 
The only issue I faced was running make install:

make[1]: ../build/convert-bbservices: Permission denied

That was due to convert-bbservices not being executable. I chmod-ed it an re-run make install and all was fine.
So far now xymon runs smoothly just as it did before. Then I recompiled with SNMP=1 env and got xymon-snmpcollect executable.
I'm planning to start basic SNMP monitoring without devmon on my home network with a few devices: openwrt switches and access points, pfsense firewall, slackware server (it runs xymon and file and media server).
I will let you know how xymon's snmp works in my environment.

I'm not sure if I could soon upgrade also the production server at work, running the 4.3.30 release. It would require a pretty big OS refresh first (also Slackware there) and I don't have so much time, since sysadmin is not my role anymore. We started playing with Grafana, but xymon still rocks!

See you soon !!!

Mario De Chenno


Il giorno gio, 08/10/2026 alle 06.46 +0200, Bruno Manzoni via Xymon ha scritto:
Hi all,

Seven years after 4.3.30, a new Xymon is nearly ready, and it's a big one:

                         code            tests           docs
241 merged PRs          +5,342 -1,546   +13,266 -2,092  6,497
9 still open            +267 -104       +981 -5         157

Roughly five years of Xymon development, packed into less than one: the
biggest Xymon update since 4.3.0.

Help us get it over the line:

- Got time for just one review? Take #349 or #428: they're the ones
holding the release back.
- Review a 4.3.31 PR. Most of them just wait for a second look:
- Or go shopping in the other open PRs. Something for every taste, and
- Build it on your system.
- Run it next to your setup and tell us what changes.

Reply here or open an issue: https://github.com/xymon-monitoring/xymon

Thanks!
Bruno