Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 214762
gmond can't start because user ganglia doesn't exist
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:48 EST
Description of problem: user ganglia is not created during ganglia-gmond installation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ganglia-gmond-3.0.3-10.fc6 How reproducible: static Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install ganglia-gmond 2. strace gmond => ganglia user doesn't exist Actual results: No useradd in the prerun section of ganglia-gmond package, but the gmond.conf specifies to start gmond with the user ganglia. So starting ganglia failed because ganglia user doesn't exist Expected results: Installing ganglia-gmond should create the user ganglia to be able to run Additional info: The user ganglia is indeed created with the ganglia-gmetad package, which is not required to be installed on each node of a cluster (1 gmond per node, and only 1 gmetad to collect data, am I wrong?)
Eep. Nope, you're correct, both gmetad and gmond should try to create the ganglia user, since its not unusual to run only one or the other of the two on a given system -- and the majority of the time, its a compute node w/only gmond. Fixed in cvs, builds in progress right now, should hit the tree later tonight. Also fixing for FC5 and devel.