On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Mark Goodwin wrote:
>
> thanks for the patch. I'm going to split it into two : first to fix the
> incorrect/hardcoded paths, and then second for your --prefix changes.
> The existing pcp.conf mechanism cannot be deprecated without breaking
> IRIX compatibility and we're not willing to do that. However, we should
> be able to accommodate your changes for rewriting src/include/pcp.conf.in.
>
cool.
> > Personally I think the old directory structure could just go away. I didn't
> > like it in the Irix day and it's even worse in a gnu environment.
>
> Why you don't like it?
The main reason is it breaks the flow of gnu setups. The second is
that it's so hard to find where everything is unless your intimately familiar
with the package. If --prefix works though it really doesn't matter since the
user can decide.
> try the "lmsensors" PMDA, contributed by Troy Dawson (dawson@xxxxxxxx).
> This will allow you to monitor fans, voltages, etc on your motherboard
> (if your h/w supports it). Also, the "roomtemp" PMDA exports the room
> temperature from one or more sensors built using the DS2480 and DS1280
> chipsets and MicroLAN technology from Dallas Semiconductor. As for detecting
> failed h/w, you might get somewhere with a syslog dredger of some kind
> (we have a PMDA for this called "logtail", but it's not part of the
> open source package).
>
> The lmsensor and roomtemp PMDAs were both shipped with pcp-2.2.1-3,
> get it from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download/
>
thanks I'll give those a try.
Brian
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