[nycbug-talk] Monitoring programs

[Kevin Reiter]

Marc Spitzer wrote:
> On 8/20/05, Kevin Reiter <tux at penguinnetwerx.net> wrote:
> 
>>Francisco Reyes wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Marc Spitzer wrote:
>>>
>>
>>Smokeping is in ports.  On the 4.11-RELEASE box I tested it on, it kept
>>core dumping, and I didn't get it working well enough using the various
>>options, so I moved on to something else.
> 
> 
> How did you install it?  make install or portinstall -R smokping?  It
> is picky about the  perl it uses and some modules, make install is
> some what deficient in managing dependencies.  It has been dead solid
> on netbsd running on a scrap grade pc

I installed it via ports via make install (as I do almost everything.)  I 
plan on trying it again once I'm finished with the test box I'm using for 
another project, which *should* be this week sometime.  I'll let you know 
if I have better luck using portinstall...

Thx
Kev