[smokeping-users] minimum install for slave mode

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Calvin Park wrote:

> ...
> there are so many library required.

:(

> How can I reduce size of smokeping?

Not easily.

On a slave, I install smokeping in a user's directory.  Then I use a
script to start it like this:

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------
mail4:~$ >>> cat start_smokeping.sh
#!/bin/bash

/home/ged/src/net/smokeping/bin/smokeping \
 --master-url=http://tornado.local.jubileegroup.co.uk/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi \
 --cache-dir=/home/ged/smokeping/ \
 --shared-secret=/home/ged/smokeping/smokeping_id

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------

Then I only install enough libraries to get it to run.  That's still
quite a lot of software.  Smokeping will always be resource hungry as
it's largely written in Perl, which is, well, large and inefficient.
That doesn't mean I don't like it. :)

--

73,
Ged.