RHEL RPM + SELinux 🔗 link

For those of you interested in better RPM package with also
experimental SELinux support, there is rpm.patch for RHEL5/6 systems
available at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&atid=710490
which provides:

* Fixed xymon and xymon-client init scripts based on Fedora/RHEL standards.
* Configuration of init scripts stored in /etc/sysconfig.
* Fixes RPM building warnings.
* Experimental SELinux support - only know issues are not collecting
ifconfig status and showgraph.cgi cannot send data to
/var/lib/xymon/tmp/rrdctl.* (not sure if this is really an issue
because graphs are correctly generated and displayed)

To apply the patch and build RPMs simply download xymon 4.3.5 and
rpm.patch from [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&atid=710490
-> Attached File] and then:

tar xf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz
cd xymon-4.3.5
patch -p1 < ../rpm.patch
cp rpm/* $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES
cd ..
tar czf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz xymon-4.3.5
cp xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES
cd $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES
sed -ie 's/@VER@/4.3.5/' xymon.spec
rpmbuild -bb xymon.spec

At the end you should end up with Xymon RPMs in $(rpmbuild -E
'%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/RPMS/. SELinux support is in separate RPM
package called xymon-selinux.

Thanks,

Viliam Pucik

On Sunday, 27 November 2011 15:13:00 Viliam Pucik wrote:

For those of you interested in better RPM package

'better' than what? Have you looked at the other existing packages and repos, 
and existing work, or did you just decide to duplicate it and ignore 
outstanding issues (and thus create *another* set of packages which need to be 
supported by an ideal future single package)?

Unfortunately, for me upgrading cleanly from hobbit 4.2.2 and xymon-4.2.3 is 
an issue, for my own production systems, and for users of my packages (in a 2 
distributions, and from my repo for RHEL/Centos/OEL).

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&at
id=710490 which provides:

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&a
tid=710490 -> Attached File] and then:

This one would be shorter:
tar xf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz
cd xymon-4.3.5
patch -p1 < ../rpm.patch
sed -ie 's/@VER@/4.3.5/' xymon.spec
cd ..
tar czf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz xymon-4.3.5
rpm -ta xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz


I would prefer if we could discuss this on the -devel list, between the 3 or 4 
parties that have provided packages or repos, and come to agreement, and then 
I will commit fixes in svn.

Regards,
Buchan