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Re: systemd pmda problem

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: systemd pmda problem
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:45:06 -0400
Cc: PCP <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <54163A53.3060007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:01:07 +1000")
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Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
> On i686 openSUSE 13.1 there is systemd, but no user or group adm.

> Log for pmdasystemd on vm24 started Fri Sep 12 06:53:30 2014
> [Fri Sep 12 06:53:30] pmdasystemd(23021) Critical: cannot find the adm
> user to switch to
> Log finished Fri Sep 12 06:53:30 2014

> I think this needs a code fix, or an Install script option or a QA
> change or more than one of these.

Good catch.  Chances are the widget just needs to run as root on that
box, unless the kind folks at suse have configured their systemd to
accept another uid/gid as fully journalctl-empowered.

- FChE

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