Snapshot feedback

Hi Bruno,

I most certainly did.  😊

Name         : xymon-client

Version      : 4.3.31

Release      : 0.20260903gitd004d18.202608262317p6ff6b58.el9

Architecture : x86_64

Size         : 1.0 M

Source       : xymon-4.3.31-0.20260903gitd004d18.202608262317p6ff6b58.el9.src.rpm

Repository   : @System

From repo    : puppet-xymon-snapshot

Summary      : Client for the Xymon network monitor

URL          : https://github.com/xymon-monitoring/xymon

The two pull requests I opened add the directory create and httpd reload into the xymon.spec. 

I should hopefully know more in a few days when I get the Xymon server up and running.  Working on bringing my old config over to it right now actually.

Scot Kreienkamp | Principal Applications Infrastructure Architect | La-Z-Boy Incorporated
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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

Le 14.09.2026 à 20:35, Scot Kreienkamp via Xymon a écrit :

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. 

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

2.       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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