FreeBSD & Nagios with statusmap.cgi | How??

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 07:12, Bas van der Veen wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> I didn't mean to imply that the developers of Nagios should make the *total* faq for running Nagios on FreeBSD.


> Just a little note stating that FreeBSD users can use the ported version (without any warranty about it functioning or not) would have been nice. I had Nagios up and running in 3 hours on a linux box (fully working that is). FreeBSD takes 2 days now and it ain't finished yet :-( (FreeBSD = company policy).

My point is that I don't know except through you that nagios is in ports
(though apparently some on the list do). I still don't know if the
plugins are in ports. And I don't really know how to find out.

Then there the other BSD's, sunfreeware, debian, mandrake, gentoo,
caldra, and a variety of other porting/packaging facilites. Would you
have us track all those too?

IMHO, the maintainers should feel free to come forward and ask for
posting, and try to help keep those FAQ items up to date. As a general
proposition, it is not in our scope, unless we add advocacy to our
scope.

Do you see my point? Maybe I'm being thick, but I think it's a point
worth at least considering.

--
Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net]

> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 05:52, Bas van der Veen wrote:
> > Ok, looks like nagios is a ported application for FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I am now checking whether this install works :-)
> > 
> > Would have been nice if I could have found this in the FAQ's or the FM though...
> 
> I'm not sure I agree. We have nothing to do with the port. It can come
> or go, the version in ports can change, the maintainer could forsake the
> material world and run off the a convent at the north pole and we'd know
> nothing about it. So why shoould we be responsible for making that FAQ.
> Shouldn't the ports maintainer make that information readily available,
> rather than us?
> 
> (Not trying to be sarcastic -- nor do I rule the idea out. But it does
> seem like our standing in FreeBSD ports is simply not best placed in our
> FAQ, or if there is a placement, it should be quite general.)
> 
> Or the port maintainer should be more communicative about it to us so we
> can know the above things. (Maybe s/he has been and I've missed it, but
> I know I seldom hear a peep from most maintainers, Ben Bell when he diid
> debian packaging was the big exception).




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