Snapshot feedback

Hi Scot,

This will sound like a stupid question, but: you installed our RPMs — the
ones from xymon-monitoring/xymon-rpm ?? PLEASE CONFIRM — on a dozen machines? That is the
first report I have from outside CI, which builds on AlmaLinux and so
proves nothing about real RHEL. Thank you.

Just some info on your 2 points:

> On the client rpm install /etc/xymon-client/clientlaunch.d is not
> created. It should be, Debian already creates it.

Debian creates it in its own packaging layer (debian/xymon-client.dirs,
via dh_installdirs), not in the build. The build creates the server's
drop-in directories, in xymond/Makefile, and neither of the client ones,
in client/Makefile — so they are missing on RPM and in a plain source
install, and I expect on FreeBSD too. Debian is the only packaging that
compensates. This is a real problem to unify, and it belongs upstream.

> On the server rpm install, it places the httpd config for xymon but
> doesn't signal httpd to reload configs. That scenario is a little less
> clear-cut as to whether it should be automatic. My opinion is that it
> should be.

I think so too, at install and uninstall time at least. Debian already
reloads (invoke-rc.d apache2 reload, in its postinst) and Terabithia does
a graceful, so the RPM is the odd one out.

Cheers,

Bruno

Hey guys, just wanted to pass along some feedback on the snapshot release rpm install.  I have the client deployed to about a dozen RHEL9 servers for testing, and I’m working on deploying a server. 

• On the client rpm install /etc/xymon-client/clientlaunch.d is not created.  It should be, Debian already creates it.
• On the server rpm install, it places the httpd config for xymon but doesn’t signal httpd to reload configs.  That scenario is a little less clear-cut as to whether it should be automatic.  My opinion is that it should be. 

I opened pull requests for both changes.

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