> maybe a better question would be, is Netsaint worth the hassle? are there 
> better tools for this that are easier to setup?

Depends on what you want to monitor .. if you want to check a tiny
webserver or just a couple little hosts with the most basic checks,
netsaint is a lot of extra hassle.  Netsaint doesn't become really handy
until  you start implementing larger networks or have several hosts
monitoring  dozens of services each.  I have a 5100-point of failure
netsaint install going watching almost 100 points of failure on several
machines, something no other opensource monitoring software could handle
without blowing the system up or becoming unmaintainable.  For small
stuff though, hit freshmeat .. software like bigbrother would probably
work.

In regards to your problem, it sounds like NEAT set the userid in
/usr/local/netsaint/etc/netsaint.cfg  to apacheuser ... edit this file
and make sure all the paths and users are correct for what you need.

Lowell



On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:04, slr wrote:

> 
> slr
> 
> On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:14 pm, slr wrote:
> > Ok here goes, cause i guess i am going to be one of those that will
> > struggle. i downloaded and installed NEAT4.9 because at 1st glance it
> > looked like it would make administration easier. i can pull up the web
> > interface and edit the host.cfg, which BTW i couldnt do by using the httpd
> > default group and chmod g+w host.cfg as suggested in the README.txt for
> > NEAT. the problem now is when i try to verify and restart netsaint using
> > the NEAT web interface i get this error msg:
> >
> > ERROR - userid apacheuser (this is not the real default httpd user) cannot
> > run /usr/local/netsaint/bin/netsaint to verify your config. This is
> > probably your httpd userid. Fix this
> >
> > i am not sure why it is using this apache user, it is not entered in the
> > netsaint.cfg file. any ideas?
> >
> > slr
> >
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